New Delhi: A Delhi Court Tuesday issued
summons to Indian National Lok Dal MLA Ajay Chautala and his
brother Abhay Chautala, a former party legislator, for
appearance in a disproportionate assets case registered by
CBI.
Special Judge P S Teji sought presence of Chautala
brothers before the court on February 15.
The CBI had on December 24 filed a chargesheet against
the two sons of former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash
Chautala in a disproportionate assets case.
The chargesheet was filed against Chautala brothers
for allegedly having assets more than their known sources of
income.
According to the chargesheet against Ajay, CBI claimed
he was in possession of assets to the tune of Rs 27.74 crore
--339 per cent more than his income Rs 8.17 crore during the
period of 1993 to 2006.
The second chargesheet was filed against Abhay alleging
his assets were 522 per cent more than his income of Rs
22.89 crore as per Income Tax records during the check period
of 2000 to 2005. The agency claimed to have found Rs 119.69
crore worth of assets.
CBI had registered a case in a designated court here
in April 2006 and searched 24 premises of the Chautalas in
Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal and
Chandigarh during which it had seized cash of Rs 13 lakh and
froze five bank accounts containing Rs 1.34 crore belonging to
Chautala and his family members.
The investigating agency's FIR listed the moveable and
immoveable properties belonging to either Chautala or his
family members that had been acquired between July 1999 and
March 2005 when they were public servants.
The FIR alleged Chautala and his family members had
plots at prime locations in Gurgaon in Haryana, Karol Bagh in
Delhi, Manali in Himachal Pradesh, Nainital in Uttarakhand and
Chandigarh besides a hotel and a restaurant in upmarket
Karol Bagh, a shopping mall, six plots of agricultural land,
six farm houses and cash and jewellery worth Rs 50 crore.
CBI had conducted a market survey and claimed in its
FIR filed in April that the total value of all the properties
was Rs 1,467 crore.
CBI had claimed the assets disproportionate to
Chautala's known sources of income were "phenomenal" and would
require an extensive and in-depth investigation.
PTI
First Published: Tuesday, February 02, 2010, 15:49