Mom-son duo booked for promoting Air Drive’s airstrip utilized in India-Pakistan wars in Punjab

A mom and her son have been charged with fraudulently promoting an airstrip of the Indian Air Drive (IAF) in Punjab.

After a whistleblower approached the court docket, the federal government initiated an investigation and charged Usha Ansal and her son Naveen Chand of Dumni Wala village in Punjab’s Ferozepur of fraudulently promoting the IAF’s airstrip in 1997, based on The Occasions of India.

The airstrip is situated in Fattuwala village close to the India-Pakistan border and was commissioned within the World Warfare II. The IAF used it as a sophisticated touchdown floor in wars with Pakistan in 1947-48, ‘65, and ‘71.

The matter got here to mild when a whistleblower, Nishan Singh, raised the matter with the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Court docket.

After the HC took up the case, the airstrip was handed over to the IAF final month and Usha and Naveen had been booked for dishonest by personification, dishonestly inducing supply of property, forgery, and legal conspiracy, based on the ToI.

How mother-son duo offered the airstrip

The case dates to 1997 and corrective actions had been solely taken final month.

In 1997, Usha and Naveen joined arms with income officers to say possession of the land by forging authorities paperwork, based on ToI.

After claiming possession of the land, they offered the land with the airstrip in collusion with income officers with the assistance of cast paperwork.

These particulars got here to mild within the Punjab Vigilance Bureau investigation that was ordered into the matter by the Punjab and Haryana HC based mostly on the Singh’s grievance. The possession of the land was restored to the IAF final month.

Presently, Deputy Superintendent of Police Karan Sharma is investigating the case in opposition to the mother-son duo.

Till the matter reached the Excessive Court docket, the inaction of presidency officers was such that the deputy commissioner did nothing even when the Halwara Air Drive Station Commandant complained concerning the airstrip and sought a probe, as per the newspaper.