BJP MP and its youth wing BJYM president Anurag Thakur is in the dock as the Himachal Pradesh police has registered FIRs against him in two different cases related to illegal purchase of land. State vigilance and anti-corruption bureau at Dharamsala on Thursday booked Anurag Thakur and his brother Arun Thakur, sons of former chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, for allegedly having forged documents to purchase a piece of land.
BJP MP and its youth wing BJYM president Anurag Thakur is in the dock as the Himachal Pradesh police has registered FIRs against him in two different cases related to illegal purchase of land. State vigilance and anti-corruption bureau at Dharamsala on Thursday booked Anurag Thakur and his brother Arun Thakur, sons of former chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, for allegedly having forged documents to purchase a piece of land. According to Bimal Gupta, superintendent police (vigilance), “Anurag and Arun had purchased 32 marlas of land at Kalapul on the Dharamshala-Mcleodganj highway by forging documents. It was an allotted land and could not be sold or bought for 20 years.” Besides the forgery case, vigilance also registered another case related to HPCA. The case is related to encroachment of 720 square feet of land, near the Dharamshala cricket stadium that belongs to the sports department. Anurag Thakur happens to be the president of Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association HPCA. The functioning of HPCA is already being contested before the courts. The state government through the Registrar of societies have served notice on HPCA seeking an explanation as to how it usurped the society and converted it into a company without the state government’s consent. HPCA approached the courts for quashing of the Registrars notice but the high court asked the sports body to appear before the authority and let it decide about the jurisdiction evoked. The Registrar Societies has also restrained HPCA from exercising control over the Dharamshala cricket stadium or The Pavillion, a hotel constructed as part of the sporting infrastructure for the stadium. In defiance of the governments directives, the HPCA met and nominated Anurag Thakur to be the representative of the state cricket body at a general meeting of Board of Cricket Control of India (BCCI). At the BCCI meeting held in Mumbai, recently, Anurag Thakur was re-elected as joint-secretary of the all powerful board. end
