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The bail plea of former Punjab cabinet minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu, accused in the transportation tender scam, will be heard today. He is in judicial custody for 14 days. While probing the scam, Vigilance had arrested Ashu on August 22. Ashu has been sent to Patiala Jail on 31 August after taking remand of 8 days in 3 times.
Now Ashu has filed a bail petition, on which the eyes of the Congressmen and the people of the city are fixed on what the Ludhiana district court will decide. At the same time, Ashu supporters hope that their favorite leader will get bail and he will come out of jail, but let us tell you that this is just a scam case.
A plethora of complaints against Ashu are pouring in with the Vigilance. Now how the Vigilance investigates impartially, only time will tell. At present, the hands of Vigilance in the Transportation Tender Scam seem to be empty till now, as Vigilance has been able to nab only two people out of 7 accused, including contractor Teluram and Bharat Bhushan Ashu.
Where the rest of the accused are hiding or are in the shelter of some politician, it is a matter of investigation. Of the 7 accused, 5 Jagroop Singh, Sandeep Bhatia, Rakesh Singla, Meenu Malhotra and Inderjit Indi are absconding for 22 days. Where are they hiding, so far Vigilance has not been able to trace it. At the same time, 2 files related to the case are missing. The registries received from Issewal have also not been verified.
2000 crore tender scam
Bharat Bhushan Ashu along with his associates have been accused of the transportation tender scam of 2 thousand crores. Tenders were won by giving numbers of cars, two wheelers and crores were embezzled. Ashu was accused by small contractors of malpractices in the labor and transportation tenders in the mandis of Punjab. 20-25 people were benefitted by ignoring small contractors.