Clean chit for local bodies director

LUDHIANA: In a major relief for the local bodies director SK Sharma, Vigilance Bureau has given a clean chit to him from the charges of helping a colonizer, husband of a MC councillor, for declaring private roads public and allegedly causing loss of Rs 4 crore to the state exchequer.
On Friday, sessions judge SP Bangarh accepted the VB’s recommendations for cancellation of FIR following the statement given by DSP Gurcharan Singh, the complainant of FIR, citing that he was having no objection with the cancellation.
Along with SK Sharma senior town planner Balkar Singh Brar, assistant town planner Kanwaljit Kaur and director of Veer Colonies have also been given clean chit. All these officials were booked in March 2009 by the vigilance bureau of Ludhiana.
As per the FIR, the officials allegedly declared the roads of colony developed by Veer Colonizers public without taking development charges.
The FIR also states that ATP Kanwaljit, too, accepted bribe for giving reports in contravention of rules. No publication announcing the development was made in any newspaper.
Local bodies director Sharma, too, was accused of flouting the norms to favour the colonizer. But after inquiry, the VB has held that no charges were proved against ATP Kanwaljit Kaur.