Chandigarh, September 19 (IANS) Punjab and Haryana High Court has refused to cancel criminal proceedings against former Haryana minister and MLA Subhash Chaudhary, his wife, brother, political advisor and others, in which a loan fraud -fraud associated with Yamunnagar Central Cooperative Bank is in case of fraud.
Chaudhary was a legalist from Jagadhari since 1996–2000 and was the Minister of State for the environment. He was again elected from Jagdhari under the Congress rule from 2005-2009 when he came close to the then Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
A bench of Justice Tribhuvan Dahiya, one of the accused, rejected the petition filed by Deep Chand, under Section 482 CRPC, adequate material was collected during the investigation, in which the prima facial participation of the accused was established in the alleged conspiracy.
On October 15, 2018, the FIR called the allegations under Section 406, 409, 420, 467, 468, 471, 120-B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Buria in Yamunnagar district. It alleged that the former minister, his family members and close associates procured agricultural loans worth more than Rs 71 lakh on the basis of fake documents and manipulated the revenue records.
Speaking to the Haryana government, Additional Advocate General Amit Sahni opposed the petition and submitted that the investigation was already completed, a charge sheet was filed on 16 March 2021, and the trial court had also made allegations against the accused on 8 June 2021. Quashed “.
He argued that allowing the questioning at this level will raise the fraudsters and there will be a strike at the very root of the justice system.
According to the prosecution, the two -time MLA, Chaudhary, with his wife Kusum Rani, brother Ashok Kumar, the then chairman of Yamunnagar Central Cooperative Bank, and political advisor Deep Chand, conspired to present barren land as fertile lands to secure huge loans. The fake ‘Jambandi’ and ‘Girhari’ records were allegedly prepared in collaboration with local Patwari.
The loan, once discharged, was never repaid, causing heavy losses to the cooperative bank.
The court agreed to the state’s submission, given that the accused had also given a false story that their land was destroyed by floods to avoid repayment. It is believed that the plot of fraud was well documented and crimes were clearly excluded. As a result, the petition to dismiss the FIR and subsequent proceedings was dismissed, paving the path of testing of the accused.
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