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CHANDIGARH: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Saturday claimed that it has uncovered a multi-crore sand mining racket being run through CM Charanjit Singh Channi via a sting operation, and demanded a CBI probe into the case in Channi’s house constituency of Chamkaur Sahib.
Senior SAD chief Bikram Singh Majithia produced the purported audio recordings announcing that an unbiased probe may disclose the level to which the manager minister and his circle of relatives had looted the State exchequer via unlawful sand mining mafia. “The entire loot through Channi in his 111-day tenure can be greater than Rs 1,111 crore”.
Majithia launched the audio recordings of the manager minister’s closest aide and Salapur village Sarpanch Iqbal Singh and his son Binder by which they detailed all of the unlawful sand mining operation being run with the manager minister’s blessings.
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The audio recordings, completed through one Darshan Singh who had befriended individuals of the sand mafia to reveal them, even has Iqbal announcing the manager minister had advised him to not worry anything else or even do mining on woodland land. It additionally gave an account of the way a woodland guard was once browbeaten into silence. The recordings display that the mafia was once additionally the use of boats and forklifts to mine sand from river beds.
As according to the audio recordings, Iqbal Singh stated the involved DFO had advised him to offer his quantity to all of the drivers and that he would for my part be sure they do not need any drawback in mining sand on woodland land. It additionally disclosed that out of the whole sand being quarried, up to Rs 1.50 according to cubic ft was once going to Channi. The recordings published that one Rakesh Chaudhary of Jammu was once the chief of the sand mafia.
Majithia stated, “It is usually sure that the proceeds of this criminality have been going to the Congress birthday party and this was once why the Congress top command, in addition to leaders like Harish Chaudhary, have been seeking to save Channi through announcing that he was once being victimised.
The SAD chief additional stated the actual fact that the Congress got here out in protection of Bhupinder Honey, the CM’s nephew who was once working the unlawful mining racket, proved that Honey and Channi have been the use of cash to buy patronage from the AICC. “This perspective must even be probed completely,” Majithia added.