Graft case: HC notices to Sud,CBI

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday issued notices to Tikshan Sud,former forest minister and current minister of local bodies and industry of Punjab and Central Bureau of Investigation on a petition demanding independent probe into allegations of corruption levelled against various officials of the Forest Department.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday issued notices to Tikshan Sud,former forest minister and current minister of local bodies and industry of Punjab and Central Bureau of Investigation on a petition demanding independent probe into allegations of corruption levelled against various officials of the Forest Department.

Notices have been issued to Ministry of Environment and Forests,Department of Forest and Wildlife,Delhi,and Principal Chief Conservator of Forests R R Kakkar on a petition by Gunraj Singh Saini,former honorary wildlife warden,Hoshiarpur.

Contending on behalf of the petitioner,advocate A P S Shergill requested the high court to take note of news items appearing in English dailies highlighting allegations of corruption. The entire scam entails the misuse of state government funds,Central governments funding as well as international funding for saving the forest as enumerated in the petition, Shergill said.

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Also,he pointed out to contents of a press conference recently held by Kakkar against the then forest minister,Tikshan Sud,wherein he had levelled serious allegations of corruption against the minister.

The petitioner has demanded that a corruption case be registered by the CBI against all the people involved in the scam.

The allegations cannot be allowed to go unnoticed without taking appropriate cognizance through registration of FIR,who may be involved in the scam, the petition said.

Demanding action against Kakkar,the petitioner has submitted that in contravention to rules,despite not being an IFS officer,Kakkar served from 2002 to 2007 as DFO,Hoshiarpur and was posted by Sud as DFO,Ludhiana in strict violation of IFS cadre rules.

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Moreover,the petitioner has sought police protection for himself and his family members since a Cabinet minister has been accused as the mastermind.

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