Deposit ₹5 lakh each in army fund: CBI court to two accused

PANCHKULA:The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court directed two forgery accused to deposit ₹5 lakh each to Army Welfare Fund Battle Casualties. The order was passed by special CBI judge Jagdeep Singh on Tuesday.

The accused, Anil Kumar Bansal, the then managing trustee of Jind Education Trust, which is running Jind Institute of Engineering and Technology (JIET) in Jind and Vinod Singh, the then member secretary of JIET, were booked by the CBI in 2009 under Section 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), for forging documents, which were submitted to All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), for getting approval to set up a new engineering college.

The duo was awarded three years imprisonment by special judicial magistrate, CBI, Panchkula, in August 2015. However, the court had acquitted Vinay Goyal, the then vice-principal of JIET, who was also booked. Defence counsel Harsh Kinra said that Anil Kumar Bansal and Vinod Singh had moved an appeal, which was dismissed by the CBI court; however, both were released on probation, he added.

On Wednesday, the counsel of both the accused submitted the demand draft against the orders in the CBI court. A detailed judgement is yet to be out in the matter.

The CBI had submitted before the court that Jind Education Trust had dishonestly misrepresented the facts about Change of Land Use (CLU) to obtain approval from AICTE.

It was submitted that accused Bansal and Singh had misrepresented the facts before AICTE regarding CLU of the entire land owned by the trust measuring 10.3 acre approx, whereas, the requisite permission for conversion of land user had been granted to the trust for 2.5 acre only by the director, town and country planning of Haryana, Chandigarh on June 1, 1998.

CBI HAD SAID JIND EDUCATION TRUST HAD MISREPRESENTED THE FACTS ABOUT CHANGE OF LAND USE TO OBTAIN APPROVAL FROM AICTE