Chandigarh, March 13: The burden of the alleged Rs 1,144-crore Ludhiana City Centre scam on Punjab Chief Minister-designate Capt Amarinder Singh may be lifted with the state Vigilance Bureau (VB) initiating a review of the “facts and figures of the case”, in the light of some “new evidence” which has cropped up 10 years after the scam was reported.
The case was pending trial in a Ludhiana court, which was yet the us frame charges against the accused even though the VB had filed a 130-page chargesheet in December 2007 naming Capt Amarinder and 35 others. The VB had listed 152 persons as witnesses.
It had a few days ago — before the Assembly poll results were declared — decided the us review the case following an application filed by some of the accused that they were not properly heard earlier.
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