A special court here on Monday reserved its order on the much publicized Swadeshi Mill land scam and has fixed July 11 to give a final verdict in the case.
Earlier, the special court judge DN Mishra listened to arguments in connection with a petition filed by senior Congress leader and former minister Suresh Seth seeking registration of case against 24 persons including state industry minister Kailash Vijayvargiya and the city Mayor Krishna Murari Moghe in connection with Swadeshi Mill land scam. The petitioner’s counsel Sohanlal Nagar in this regard submitted a verdict of the Supreme Court of the year 2012 seeking court’s nod against the accused of Swadesi Mill land scam.
The special sessions court on August 31 2012, had admitted a complaint filed by former MlA Suresh Seth against industry minister Kailash Vijayvargiya, mayor Krishnamirari Moghe, mayor-in-council members- Ajay Singh Naruka, Munalal Yadav, Jawahar Mangwani, Sapna Chouhan, Suresh Kurwade, Chandu Shinde, Swati Sharma, Padma Bhoje, Dilip Sharma and Gopal Mallu, municipal commissioner Yogndra Shamra, then commissioner of Indore Municipal Corporation P B Singh, Deepak Saxena of National Textile Corporation (NTC), Himanshu Shah and K Ramchandra Pillai of Sofia Real Estate, former chief secretary Rakesh Sahini, then collector of Indore Vivek Agrawal, then tehshildar R S Rajput, then SDO Manoj Pushp and chief operating officer of Sofia Real Estate O P Agrawal in connection with Swadeshi Mill land scam case.
Subsequent to the complaiant filed by Suresh Seth, Deepak Saxena of National Textile Corporation had filed an interim application seeking that he should be given a chance to present his view. However, the court had rejected his plea saying that it was premature and he will be given chance later.
Seth in his complaint had alleged that 15.32 acre of land of Swadeshi Mill was sold to Mumbai-based private firm India Bulls, in violation of rules.
Indore municipal corporation (IMC) had also filed civil lawsuit in district court in connection with the Swadeshi Mills land to stake its claim. The IMC had challenged the authority for selling the land as it was given to the Mills on lease.