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‘Crorepati Cook’ Amit Bahadur Denies Cooking for Punjab Minister

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Punjabi Khurki
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Chandigarh, May 31: Amit Bahadur, 37, who is now famous as power minister Rana Gurjit Singh’s “cook”, has been in hiding after a controversy erupted over him getting the contract of a Rs 26-crore sand mine in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district.

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Amit Bahadur, the cook who filed Income Tax returns touching barely a lakh rupees in annual income and earning around Rs 11,000 as salary in February, says he has not invested in the sand mine auctions recently held by the Punjab Government Directorate of Mining under the Department of Industries and Commerce. Amit Bahadur made the largest bid amounting to almost Rs 26 crore for a sand mining block in SBS Nagar district in Punjab.

Amit Bahadur denied ever being the cook of Rana Gurjit Singh and also denied having any dealings with the Power Minister considered to be close to Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh. Bahadur acknowledged that some years ago he was an employee of Rana Gurjit Singh, but was never his cook.

Explaining his source of funding that facilitated his making a Rs 26-crore bid and also depositing Rs 13 crore after winning the bid, Amit Bahadur said he is working with a businessman named Capt Randhawa and on his direction, he had bid for the sand mines. He says it was an open bid and all the money to make the bids was paid by Randhawa — a businessman who is his partner. Bahadur said he bid on his name but with Randhawa’s money and that he is open to any investigation by income tax or enforcement directorate authorities.

News Source: http://www.news18.com

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