Chandigarh Newsline managed to procure certain vital details pertaining to allotments made under the rehabilitation scheme, particularly in Ram Darbar Phase-II.

The UT Vigilance department has already initiated a thorough inquiry into all such instances and has even got approval from Chief Vigilance Officer Krishna Mohan to go ahead and register criminal cases against the beneficiaries and the Estate officials who made such allotments. The files pertaining to such allotments, however, are learnt to have gone missing from the official records.

All thanks to the rehabilitation scheme, Johri Ram, who was living with his family in a shack in Sector 26, has five houses in Ram Darbar, Phase-II. His three sons and a grandson are owners of separate houses. However, the papers pertaining to the allotment of such units are missing from the official records of the UT Estate Office.

In another such case, Fakir Chand managed a shop-cum-residence and three houses for his three sons. Fakir Chand used to live in a shack in Sector 26, while his three sons were living in Ropar district when they were allotted separate dwelling units under the rehabilitation scheme.

“There are many such cases, where allotments were made in a haphazard manner. The details pertaining to such allotments are missing from the official records and nobody knows how those people, who have not even paid the lease rent in many cases, are staying in these houses. There are many who do not even possess the actual allotment letters to claim their ownership on the house,” said a Vigilance department officer.