On the complaint of the executive engineer PWD (B&R), the FIR has been registered at Bulhowal police station under Sections 420 (cheating) 465 (forgery) 466 (aggravated form of forgery) 467 (forgery of valuable security) 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) 471 (fraudulent use of document) of the Indian Penal Code. After taking legal advice, the FIR was registered against the company,” Mann said, maintaining that all misappropriated money will be recovered. Since then, it was collecting ₹1.94 lakh daily but neither did it maintain the account properly nor fulfil other obligations. “The 27.9-kilometre-long road was built by the government at a cost of ₹7.76 crore and handed over to the private company for maintenance in March 2007. The company had asked for an extension of 522 days to recover losses incurred due to the farmers’ protest and the Covid pandemic lockdown but the government had rejected the claim, he said. He was accompanied by deputy speaker Jai Krishan Singh Rouri and cabinet minister Brahm Shankar Jimpa.Īddressing the media, Mann said that the toll company had been allowed by previous governments to loot people, claiming that it collected more than ₹7 crore annually for 15 years in the name of maintenance. Mann said that a first information report (FIR) has been registered against M/s PD Aggarwal Private Limited for breaching the build operate transfer (BOT) agreement. (Ht file photo)Īlso read: Punjab sends panel of three IPS officers for appointment of new Chandigarh SSP Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday announced the closure of the Lachowal toll plaza on the Hoshiarpur-Tanda road, stating that the Aam Aadmi Party government has refused to grant extension as demanded by the toll operating company.
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