First Women leader of Punjab BJP arrested by vigilance Bureau
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ September 18,2023
As per reports, Vigilance Bureau on Monday has arrested former Congress MLA from Ferozepur (Rural) and now BJP leader Satkar Kaur Gehri and her husband Jasmail Singh Laddi Gehri in a disproportionate assets case.
The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) on Monday arrested Satkar Kaur Gehri, a former MLA from Ferozpur Rural, and her husband, Jasmail Singh Gehri, resident of village Shakoor, Ferozepur district, in a disproportionate assets case after conducting a vigilance enquiry.
Disclosing this here today, a spokesperson for the Punjab VB revealed that during the investigation, it was discovered that the former legislator, in collusion with her husband, had accumulated assets exceeding their known sources of income during her tenure as a member of the Legislative Assembly. “During the check period, her total income from all sources amounted to Rs 1,65,34,053, while her total expenditures during the same period were Rs 4,49,19,831. Consequently, their expenditures amounted to Rs 2,83,85,778.41, which represents a disproportionate increase of 171.68%,” he added.
The spokesperson also informed that a case under section 13 (1), 13(B) of Prevention of Corruption Act and and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been registered against both individuals at the VB Police Station in Ferozepur. Further investigations in this matter were under progress, he added.
Satkar Kaur, around 45, was hand-picked by senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as a candidate from this reserved category in the 2012 state polls. She lost that election to SAD (B) Joginder Singh Jindu by 16 votes.
In next assembly elections in 2017, she again got the party ticket and defeated Joginder Singh Jindu by 23000 votes and remained a Congress MLA (Ferozepur rural) from 2017-2022. But later she joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2022 after Congress denied her the ticket.
