Professional & Knowledgable Law Team

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Woman ‘IAS officer’, aide held for Rs 45-lakh fraud

Chandigarh, September 9
The Palampur police today arrested a woman from Sector 37 here for impersonating as an IAS officer. Pooja Sharma and her partner Mohit Sharma were arrested and booked under Sections 468, 471 and 120 of the IPC.
They were in the dock for preparing forged documents for the sale of a piece of land at Palampur in Himachal Pradesh. The police said Pooja had posed as an IAS officer and cheated Dr Rajiv Bedi of Mohali and SK Bedi of Chandigarh.
She had reportedly taken away Rs 45 lakh from them after giving them forged land documents. Dr Rajiv Bedi and SK Bedi had approached the police and filed a complaint against Pooja and her three accomplices.
Pooja’s track record revealed that she had also cheated a number of persons in Una district, claimed the police. She also owned a Ford Ikon car, with a red beacon atop, making others believe that she was an IAS officer.
UT cops not in the loop
The SHO of the Sector-39 police station, inspector Charanjeet Singh, said they were unaware of any arrests by the Himachal Pradesh Police.

Kaypee, Jaura meet PM on Anand Marriage Act


New Delhi, September 9
Jalandhar MP Mohinder Singh Kaypee and president of the International Punjabi Civil Society RS Jaura today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to seek immediate resolution to the Anand Marriage Act imbroglio.
Jaura said the PM was told that there was a need for the Act felt among the Sikhs globally. Jaura, along with former Union Minister MS Gill, had met Law minister Salmaan Khursheed two days back on the issue.

Sehajdhari Voting Row


SGPC goes to HC against Harbhagwan

Chandigarh, September 9In yet another twist to the ongoing controversy in the Sehajdhari Sikhs voting rights case, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) today moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking the prosecution of senior advocate Harbhagwan Singh.
Senior advocate-cum-Punjab’s former Advocate-General Harbhagwan Singh had told the High Court Bench that he was appearing on behalf of the Centre and that the impugned notification debarring Sehajdhari Sikhs from voting in the SGPC elections stood withdrawn. But, the Centre, the very next day, had clarified that the notification was still in force.
The application, under Section 151 of the CPC read with Section 340 of the CrPC, seeks the initiation of the proceedings against Harbhagwan Singh and alleged co-conspirators for false evidence and criminal conspiracy under Section 193 and 120-B of the IPC.
The SGPC has claimed that Harbhagwan Singh had never represented the Union of India in any of the civil writ petitions in the matter prior to September 1, when the Bench on his statement disposed of the case.
The SGPC claimed that even on September 1, no authority letter or document was placed before the full Bench to show he was authorised and instructed or briefed to appear on behalf of the Union of India and to make any such statement.
The SGPC claimed it was apparent that Harbhagwan Singh deliberately made a false and wrong statement. In the process, he not only misled the High Court, but also outraged the religious sentiments of the whole Sikh community across the world, particularly the SGPC, the Sant Samaj, all religious institutions of the Sikhs and the Jathedars of all the five Akal Takhts.
The SGPC added the deliberate and false statement was made with an oblique motive and was a result of a very deep-rooted conspiracy of higher-ups of political parties, whose sole aim was to stall the SGPC elections scheduled to be held on September 18 by adopting illegal means, as 10 candidates have already been elected unopposed.
A reference has also been made to the interview of Union Law Minister Salman Khursheed carried in The Tribune.
The news item, dated September 6, has not only been annexed with the application, but has also been culled out and reproduced in the application. Quoting The Tribune, the application says, “Putting the blame of the SGPC poll controversy on senior counsel Harbhagwan Singh, Law Minister Salman Khursheed today said it was the counsel who failed to represent the government properly in the case and he had therefore been withdrawn.
“How could he convey to the high court a decision that had not even been taken by the government? Who would have taken the decision to rescind the 2003 notification barring Sehajdhari Sikhs from participating in the SGPC poll? Either the Cabinet would have taken that decision or the Home Ministry through the Prime Minister. When none of this was done, how could the counsel say what he said to the court?” Khursheed told The Tribune today.