All India Congress Committee and Accused of Treasure Island Mall
Indore corruption case -
Name - Digvijay Singh
Birth Date - February 28, 1947
Party – Congress
Digvijay Singh was born in the royal family of Raghogarh principality, in Guna district of Madhya Pradesh.
He studied at the Daly College, Indore, and a private school
Digvijay Singh first became president of the Raghogarh municipal committee at the age of 22 years.
In 1971 he joined congress party.
1977 – He won election and become MLA
1980-84
He became minister of state and later a Cabinet Minister under the MP Government headed by Arjun Singh
He was elected as a Member of Parliament in 1984 from Rajgarh
1985 –
He became the President of Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee
1991 –
He was elected as a Member of Parliament in 1991 from Rajgarh
1993 –
Digvijay Singh became the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh
1998 –
Digvijay Singh became the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh second time.
He served as the chief minister for 10 years from 1993 to 2003
Controversies and Digvijay Singh
Year 2001 – Liquorgate
The income tax raids on a liquor manufacturer in Bhopal yielded a diary maintained by the distillery's owners.
The diary reportedly listed among others the name of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh as one of the recipients of huge sums of money.
A payment of Rs 100 million was listed against Singh's name while an entry of Rs 20 million stood against the name of the state excise minister.
A.N.Singh's name appeared prominently in the diaries seized in a raid by the income tax authorities. That time Singh was the state's additional DGP (Intelligence).
Later Digvija Singh appointed A.N.Singh as the Director-General of the State Police (DGP).
But in this case nothing happened I tried to find more info but nothing is available.
May be he was innocent in this scandal.
Year 2004 - Lok Ayukta case against Digvijay in land scam
The Special Police Establishment of the Madhya Pradesh Lok Ayukta registered a case in connection with a land scam in Indore under the Prevention of Corruption Act and criminal conspiracy and corruption against the former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Digvijay Singh, and four others.
The Special Police Establishment had registered an FIR against Mr. Singh, his close friend and coloniser, Subhash Gupta, the Indore Collector, M. Suleiman, the Competent Authority (Urban Land Ceiling), R.K. Gupta and the Principal Secretary, Revenue, Satyanand Mishra, under Sections 13(1) and 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, along with criminal conspiracy
The Madhya Pradesh Lok Ayukta, Justice Ripu Sudan Dayal, confirmed that the Special Police Establishment had registered an FIR
What happened in this case I did not find any information.
May be in this case also he was innconet.
Year 2009 –
Case 1 –
In 2009, an FIR was registered against Digvijay Singh by the Uttar Pradesh Police for allegedly making objectionable remarks against the then Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati during an election rally.
Singh, during a meeting in support of Congress nominee from Misrikh seat on April 20 had allegedly said that if any party worker was harassed by the state government then BSP supremo Mayawati should remember that a CBI inquiry is being conducted against her.
He had also said that the Congress had the government at the Centre and that the CBI was also in Delhi.
Sub-Divisional Magistrate Bilgram Anand Kumar said that the remarks made by the Congress leader amounted to violation of model code of conduct.
Case 2 -
The Economic Offences Wing registered a case against Digvijay Singh and three retired IAS officers for providing undue benefit to the promoters of an Indore mall.
EOW has booked the former Chief Minister on the compaint of Ramesh Garg. The three retired IAS officers, UK Samal, AV Singh and DP Tiwari other than VP Kulshreshtha, Rakesh Sharma and Ashwin Janwade have also been made accused in the case.
When the Treasure Island mall was under-construction in Indore, the MG road was a residential locality as per the old master plan but permission for commercial activity was given for a plot of 90x30 sq metres.
Later officials fudged the records and the mall was constructed on the entire 90x120 sq metre plot. It was a joint project of Kalanis and Housing Board though the former were
defaulters but just before completion of project, the HB Chairman cancelled the agreement that resulted in huge benefits to the Kalanis.
Friday, April 22, 2011 –
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the Economics Offences Wing (EOW) to file a chargesheet against former state chief minister Digvijay Singh and 11 others for flouting rules and allowing illegal construction of an Indore mall.
Justice Prakash Shrivastava and Justice Sanjay Seth of the court's Indore bench on Wednesday asked the EOW to present the chargesheet before the court by June 30 and submit the detailed compliance report by July 4.
The Treasure Island Mall, centrally located on Indore's Mahatma Gandhi Road, came up in the area marked for residential purposes only under the city's 1991 master plan. A special permission was given to allow the mall's construction on a 25,000 sq feet plot.
Petitioner Mahesh Garg had taken the complaint to the EOW.
Garg Lawyer Manohar Dalal said that The EOW did little in the investigations. The case file was shuffled around from one department to another and the investigating officer was changed five times in two years
He said the special permission for the mall's construction was given on 25,000 sq feet land. ``But the government changed it to 1,00,000 sq feet in the gazette notification.''
The bench also issued notices to Digvijay, former housing minister Choudhary Rakesh Singh Chaturvedi, former chief secretary A V Singh, former state housing board chairman Chandraprabhash Shekhar, mall owners Prem Kalani and Manish Kalani and four other senior IAS officers.
Reality views by sm –
Friday, April 22, 2011
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