IN A case dated back to late 1980s, a Delhi court has now ordered framing of charges against former Nagaland chief secretary and 1968 batch IAS officer SS Ahluwalia for procuring arms licences more than what was permitted to him by allegedly resorting to forgery.
The officer is accused of obtaining five arms licences when there were sanctions only for three. The issue will crop up on February 10, 2010 when charges will be framed against Ahluwalia who was the then secretary and commissioner of labour and employment in Nagaland government. The charges include cheating, forgery and the other offence under the IPC. Also, it also directed that the charges should also be framed against the officer under the Arms Act.
Delhi Special Police had earlier investigated a case of extortion and disproportionate assets against the Mr Ahluwalia who was first inducted into Army in 1964, moved up to the rank of captain before getting selected for IAS.
Former Nagaland chief minister Hokisha Sema in a letter dated December 4, 1986 to then minister of state for home P Chidambaram, accused Mr Ahluwalia of accruing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income, some of which as alleged in that letter were an air-conditioned cinema house in Agra, residential properties, one in Delhi’s South Extension and another in Greater Kailash Part I, land in Gwalior and Chandigarh.
He had served as deputy commissioner of Kohima district from June, 1975 to December, 1976, director in the ministry of home affairs (July, 1978 to August, 1979) and then a director in DoPT, both on Central deputation. He also attended a diploma course in advanced studies in development administration at the University of Manchester (UK) from September, 1980 to June, 1981. He was again posted in DoPT and handled matters related to administrative reforms from June, 1981-to March, 1984.
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SON of former bureaucrats Rupan Deol Bajaj and B R Bajaj of Punjab cadre, has been booked for tearing off the uniform of a policeman and misbehaving with cops in Chandigarh on Friday night.
Ranjit Bajaj, 29-year-old son of former IAS couple, had allegedly caused disturbances at a private party and misbehaved with guests, media reports said. Sub-inspector Nirmal Singh was suspended for failing to arrest Bajaj who is still at large.
The organizers of the party said that Bajaj and three youths were not even invited for the party, but they barged into the private area and started dancing. When the hosts tried to stop them, they started abusing and threatening, reports said.
Police reached the spot, but according to the allegation, they remained mute spectators as they feared to arrest Bajaj possibly because of his clout as son of an influential IAS couple. The other three youths were arrested.
The accused later talked to a section of the media and said he was being “wrongly framed” in the case. He said he did not enter into any fight with anyone.
Two years ago, Bajaj was convicted on charges of forgery and criminal conspiracy in a case of May 5, 2000 when a foreign-made .9 mm pistol, seven cartridges, two empty gun holsters and two swords were found in Bajaj’s car. The car had a fictitious registration number CHI 1. Singh was also declared a proclaimed offender.