CBI TEAM IN BIKANER TO PROBE ‘ILLEGAL’ LAND DEALS
ate. It was a relief to see people responding well and allowing the child to get airlifted within minutes of leaving the hospital,” said Hiren Chandra Nath, Guwahati police commissioner.
The boy’s parents had made an appeal through social media and local television channels to the public to help with funds and ensure a smooth journey to Delhi.
“We are thankful to the public, police and the media for helping us in our time of need. I hope such steps are taken for others as well when needed,” the boy’s mother Madhusmita Saikia Bhuyan told journalists.
Nath said a green corridor is being set up in Delhi as well so that Snigdharaag can be shifted from the Indira Gandhi International
A team of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has landed in Bikaner to investigate the alleged land scams in Bikaner.
The seven-member team is also learnt to have collected fresh documents and evidence to investigate the case further.
The CBI registered 18 FIRs recently after the Rajasthan government recommended a probe into the scams.
Sources said the CBI team headed by additional superintendent of police (ASP) Ravi Gambhir visited Kolayat and Gajner, where the alleged plots were allotted to some villagers in 2006-07, who were ‘wrongfully’ shown as farmers displaced by the acquisition of land for the Mahajan Field Firing Range for the army.
Gambhir refused to comment on the issue when the Hindustan Times asked him about the progress in investigation.
The Rajasthan government had written to the CBI for a probe into alleged land scams, including those involving a company linked to Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra.
Separate FIRs were registered under relevant Sections of the Indian Penal Code regarding a series of transactions of land in Bikaner, of which Vadra’s companies also made a few purchases.
There were also allegations that Vadra had bought a lot more than what was reported, but these claims remain unsubstantiated.
Sources said that Vadra may be interrogated by the CBI for charges of wrongdoings such as buying from those who had bought it fraudulently or by exceeding land ceiling.
Among the 18 FIRs registered by the central agency, 16 were lodged at the Gajner police station while two at Kolayat police station in Bikaner between August and September, 2014.
Vadra’s company was the third party to purchase 275 bigha of land in 2010 and it sold it to a fourth party in 2012.
Earlier, in its report Rajasthan Police have cleared the Robert Vadra-promoted Sky Light Hospitality of any wrongdoing, saying the company was a victim of “conspiracy” and “cheating” as grabbed government land was sold to it.
THE RAJASTHAN GOVT HAD WRITTEN TO THE CBI SEEKING A PROBE INTO ALLEGED LAND SCAMS, INCLUDING DEALS BY A FIRM LINKED TO CONG CHIEF SONIA GANDHI’S SONINLAW ROBERT VADRA
Airport to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
In March this year, an eightday-old baby from Dibrugarh in upper Assam was flown to Delhi for emergency treatment and a similar green corridor was set up in the national capital at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention. Prayers are being offered at several religious places across Assam for the child’s well being. The police hope that the widespread coverage in media about the child will spread mass awareness among road users.
“Every second or minute is crucial during an emergency. This event should sensitize the public on the need to make way for ambulances and emergency services,” said Nath.