AMITABH BACHCHAN IS NOT A FARMER: U.P. COURT
A faizabad court on Friday dismissed a review writ filed by Bollywood "SUPER-STAR" SRI AMITABH BACHCHAN in the controversial farming land allotment case, clearifying that was not a farmer in Uttar Pradesh. Additional Commissioner Vidya Sagar Prasad in his judgement dismissed the writ by Bachchan in which the actor had sought review of an order of the Barabanki District Magistrate questioning the allotment of a government farming land to him citing violation of rules.
On May 29, the Commissioner's court had reserved the judgement after the 15th hearing of the case. The Previous Mulayam Singh Yadav government had alloted three Big has ( about 70,000 sq. ft. ) of prime land in Barabanki district to Bachchan, a close confidante of the Samajwadi Party. The District Magistrate Barabanki had alleged that the Bollywood icon had "misrepresented facts" to receive the benifit.
Later, Bachchan also reportedly used the allotment as a testimonial to establish his credentials as a farmer to buy agricultural land in Pune, Maharashtra as the state's rules do not permit anyone other than a farmer to purchase such land. It was a query by the Pune Collector in March'2006 to the Barabanki District Magistrate for authentication of the U.P. testimonial that revealed the alleged irregularities. Then Barabanki D.M. Ashish Goel cancelled the allotment on the grounds that the land revenue records were fake. The official was replaced with in a few days and his successor Ram Shankar Sahu stayed the cancellation till further oredr's.
Thereafter, Sri Amitabh Bachchan approached the D.C. to get the land restored in his name. Recentaly, BIG B had said he was ready to face probe in the matter. Talking to a news channel, he said, "i am a law abiding citizen and will obey whatever the law asks me to do. If proved wrong, then we are ready to face penalty. If everything is found to be in order, i would say thank you." He also refused to comment on Mayawati government's decision to probe the legality of the land allotment in the Barabanki district, but maintained that the property paper's given to him by the government were in order.
" Now, the government is saying that it should be probed.... I AM READY". he added. The Election Commission had sought a report from the district administration following a complaint that Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan had not mentioned the said property in her declaration at the time of filling nominations for the Rajya Sabha poll in the year 2006. State Principal Secraetary ( Assembly ) R. P. Pandey probing the matter will pronounce his decision next week.
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