Sandeep Rana

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 6

The Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) has convicted Col BS Goraya (retd) in a case of selling his attached agricultural property in Punjab. Judge Akshdeep Mahajan has scheduled the quantum of sentence for February 8.In 2011, the court of special CBI judge had ordered initiation of criminal action against the former Army officer and had filed a complaint against him in the court of the then CJM. Proceedings against him under Section 340 of the CrPC were started in the court of the CJM. The property of the Sector 9 resident was attached during the investigation of a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The court had directed that he was not entitled to sell his land. However, he sold off one of the attached properties.A case was registered by the premier investigating agency under Sections 13(2) and 13(1) of the Prevention of Corruption Act. It was stated that between January 1987 and August 1990, the accused and some others had acquired properties worth Rs 82.58 lakh. The properties were disproportionate to his known sources of income. The CBI court, during the trail, had also attached the Sector 9 house of the former Army officer.  He had several properties in his as well as his family members’ name in Chandigarh, Punjab and Haryana, which led to the registration of the case against him. Colonel Goraya, however, had submitted an application on March 26, 2014, seeking verification regarding the sale of the Sector 2 plot.