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Ahluwalia acquitted in moral
turpitude case, forgery too
WSN Network
PATIALA: This
was something that was being expected any day. After the Badal
government made Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia the vice chancellor of
Guru Granth
Sahib
University, it was expected that he will also be let off by the
courts in various cases against him, including one of molesting a
girl student.
A day after a
court acquitted him of charges of corruption and forgery, another
acquitted him of charges of attempting to molest a girl. The latter
case was vintage February 2002 when he had to quit amid clouds of
disgrace. Ahluwalia was booked after the Congress came to power in
2002 but was always seen as a Badal protege.
A student of the
Fine Arts Department of the university, Saru Rana, had levelled
charges of molestation and a case was registered against Ahluwalia.
The latter claimed the case had been registered out of political
vendetta.
Saru Rana had
alleged that she had been sent to Ahluwalia on January 1, 2002, at
the behest of three persons -- then Fine Arts Department head Saroj
Rani, artist Jaspal Singh and research scholar Amandeep Kaur. All
these three present in the court on Saturday along with Ahluwalia --
were also discharged.
27
January 2010
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