Jabalpur, Mar 08: The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the state government to produce the records relating to the allotment of house plots to ministers and MLAs on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking the court's directives for a CBI inquiry into the allotments. The PIL was filed by former chief minister and senior Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) leader Sunderlal Patwa.
A division bench, comprising Justice Deepak Mishra and Justice A K Shrivastava, while hearing the petition seeking an enquiry into the allotment of plot and houses by the MP Housing Board (MPHB) and Bhopal Development Authority (BDA) to members of the Madhya Pradesh state assembly, directed the state government to furnish all the records related to the allotment of plots on concessional rate in Bhopal from the assembly pool quota. The counsel for the petitioners, R N Singh, submitted that as per the state scheme, plots and constructed houses can be provided to assembly members having no house or property owned by them.
The counsel contended that some ministers and MLAs have procured such plots by furnishing false affidavits saying they owned no property under the assembly quota but in reality they had their own houses in the state.
The petitioner sought the directives of the court for a CBI probe in the matter of such allotment of plots. Bureau Report