CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana High Court last week granted anticipatory bail to Rupan Deol Bajaj, her husband, B.R. Bajaj, both senior IAS officers, two of their relatives and two others in a land dispute case with one Raunaq Singh, a resident of village Daon near Kharar. Justice Swatantar Kumar granted anticipatory bail to the Bajaj couple, Simran Kaur, Rupan’s sister and her husband, Balbir Singh Dhaliwal and their two employees.
Earlier, Justice S.S. Sudhalkar of the same high court had directed the Kharar police to file an FIR against these persons on a petition filed by Raunaq Singh. The complainant had alleged that Bajaj couple along with these persons had come to his house on December 11, 1995 and threatened him with dire consequences unless he takes back a civil suit regarding a land dispute. The father of Rupan Deol Bajaj had a civil case with Raunaq Singh regarding a piece of land in a Kharar court, Raunaq Singh had alleged in his petition that the police had refused to take any action against those who threatened him.
The counsel for the Bajaj also moved in application seeking the quashing of the petition filed by Raunaq Singh, Navkiran Singh and A.S. Chahal, counsel for the Bajaj’s contended that the allegations leveled by Raunaq Singh are false and motivated by K.P.S. Gill. They said that the existence of the petition became first known to them when the defence counsel in the Gill Bajaj case brought it before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chandigarh, hearing the case. They further said that Raunaq Singh had a land dispute with the father of Rupan Deol who died two years ago. After his death she as a legal heir has been fighting the civil case, the court while granting anticipatory bail issued notices to the state of Punjab for August 13.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 14, 1996
