Chandigarh: The Vigilance Bureau has launched a probe against former Revenue Minister Gurpreet Singh Kangar in a case of amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
Kangar is currently the BJP’s state general secretary. The investigation against him had started some time ago and now the case has been handed over to a senior officer of the Punjab Vigilance Headquarters.
The vigilance officers have started unearthing the ‘benami properties’ of Kangar in Punjab and other states and a lot of details have been found in the hands of the investigating agency.
The details of Kangar’s tenure as revenue minister in Amarinder Singh’s government are being specially focused on them.
According to sources, records of the property of the Kangar family have also been obtained from the revenue department. Details of their close relatives are being collected who have been vocal during the Congress government.
The Vigilance is also keeping an eye on the officers and employees posted with them from other departments.
The former revenue minister may be summoned when the probe is completed. The Vigilance is also collecting facts about Kangar’s participation in the luxurious ‘outlet’ opened near Handia.
Kangar had also come into limelight when the Punjab Cabinet on September 17, 2021, approved the appointment of Kangar’s son-in-law Gursher Singh as excise and taxation inspector on compassionate grounds in the excise department.
Former minister Gurpreet Singh Kangar has said that the Vigilance is an impartial agency whose investigation he has no objection to, but he does not know anything about this investigation yet.
He said that his father is an ancestral business and since 1990-91, he has a sheller and arhtiya business. There was also a large convoy of buses but they also had to sell land on buses.