In a late night order on Thursday, court observed that Saini’s arrest was violation of Court’s previous order dated October 11, 2018 and September 23, 2020 and anticipatory bail order on August 12 this year in which court had directed the issuance of seven day advance notice to Saini in case action was contemplated against him.

The orders by Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi of the High Court came at about 11:40 pm after observing the case.

Earlier, court on September 23, 2020 had also extended the protection of order on October 11, 2018, to any incident pertaining to his entire service career.

Saini was arrested by vigilance on Wednesday in a corruption case after he went to the bureau to join the investigation.

A case under Sections 409, 420 and Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 and many other sections at Police Station,VB, Punjab at Mohali. He was produced in the local CJM court of SAS Nagar on Thursday to get his remand.

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The move came after a civil writ petition filed by Puran Singh of Nurmahal, creation of a ‘fake gram’ panchayat allegedly by the Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthan(DJJS) in Nurmahal.

Singh, claiming to be the former driver of DJJS head Ashutosh Maharaj (clinically dead but claimed to be in Samadhi), sought the information through RTI information, a copy of which with), revealed that Jalandhar village Divya Gram reportedly does not exist in revenue records but was getting grants for developmental works.

Following this, he had filed a civil writ petition which was listed before the bench of Justice Anil Kshetarpal.

He submitted in the court that a fake gram panchayat, village Diviya Gram, has been created in order to siphon off funds granted by the 14th Finance Commission as also the Local Area Development Fund and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA). The rural development and panchayat also receive grants from the board.

Advocate Baltej Singh Sidhu said, “The department constituted a gram Sabha for a non-existing village and took development grants. A legal notice was also sent to the state for conducting a probe but no action was taken,” he told the court.

He said that the court directed the state government to conclude the inquiry into the entire matter and placed it on record on adjourned date of September 7 the court.

The village reportedly received grants worth Rs 2.59 lakhs under MNREGA and the number of houses in the village listed is 59 but the government’s revenue department does not have any records of it which is illegal as per the law, the advocate said.

When contacted, Block development and panchayat officer (BDPO) Pawanpreet Kaur said, “A department inquiry is going on into the matter and a reply will be submitted in the matter before the high court.”

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The High Court hearing the plea said that the trial court is restrained from passing the final order, pending the listing of three petitions on the issue before the bench.

The High court bench was told by the IT department that the trial court is going to pass the final order because of a revisional court quashing the summoning order against the two.

Observing the case bench of Justice GS Sandhawalia said, “CJM should not pass any further orders on the complaint.” The judge posted the matter for November 18 and also asked that both be served the notices for an adjourned date.

Captain Amarinder and his son are facing allegations of furnishing false statements and willful omission in providing required information to the I-T department that had filed criminal complaints against them in a Ludhiana court in 2016.

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