Digvijaya Singh gets court relief in land scam

January 17, 2014 22:02

Congress leader Digvijay Singh today got a major relief from a Special Court which accepted a closure report submitted by police in over a decade-old land scam to which he was linked.

Economic Offences Wing had filed a corruption case against Digvijay, Madhya Pradesh Assembly's current Deputy Speaker and former Housing and Environment Minister Rajendra Kumar Singh and others for changing the land use.

EOW case was that housing plots were developed on a piece of land here reserved for industrial use between 2001-2003 when Digvijay was the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. The land in question belonged to New Precision Industry.

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