March 10, 2015 by admin

High Court suspends Langah’s jail sentence

Chandigarh, About a month after senior Aklai leader and former Cabinet Minister Sucha Singh Langah was sentenced to three years in a disproportionate assets case, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today suspended the sentence.
Taking up an appeal filed through senior advocate RS Rai, Justice Paramjeet Singh has ordered the listing of his appeal for hearing within three months. Justice Paramjeet Singh, on the previous date of hearing, had asserted: “After hearing senior counsel for the appellant and keeping in view the fact that the appellant being a Cabinet Minister in Punjab is alleged to have accumulated property in his own name and other relatives disproportionate to his known sources of income, which has been ordered to be confiscated vide judgment impugned before this court, the appeal is ordered to be listed for hearing within three months”.
Public Works Minister in the SAD-BJP government during 1997-2002, Langah was also fined Rs 1 crore by a court. He was released on bail after he deposited the money. The court also ordered that 16 of his properties be attached.