NRI Commission seeks report on Ludhiana's ‘The Hub’ Restobar

Issues notice to Commissioner of Police and DC Ludhiana

Chandigarh, January 3: NRI Commission Punjab today issued the notice to Commissioner of Police and Deputy Commissioner Ludhiana and sought report within 3 weeks on the complaint of land grabbing submitted by Hardial Singh Hundal, NRI from USA against Maninder Pal Singh Johar.

Disclosing this here today, a Spokesman of the Commission today said that the Commission has taken a suo-motto on the news published in media on January 1, 2013.

He said that in his complaint Hardial Singh Hundal alleged that the land on which ‘The Hub’ resto-bar has been built by Maninder Pal Singh Johar alias Sunny Johar was illegally grabbed by Sunny Johar. Hundal said that the land is his ancestral property.

The spokesman further said that in his complaint Hundal alleged that the land has been grabbed by Sunny Johar in connivance with the officials of Police administration and Municipal Corporation Ludhiana and during inquiry it was revealed that 11 persons had grabbed the said property but there was no follow up action. He said that the act and conduct of Sunny Johar was also probed by the then SDM East who also gave the findings against Johar, who out of vengeance filed a fake complaint against complainant’s sister Ranjana and her husband Sukhwinder for which now a cancellation has been recommended. It has been further alleged that district administration went by the fake award on the basis of settlement which was never entered, resultantly his attorney Gurbinder filed a case against Johar in the court of Divisional Commissioner Patiala where in the matter was stayed but despite it the house was demolished and the restobar ‘The Hub’ constructed. He further alleged that the district authorities had ignored his complaint and went on with giving of change of land use certificate.