Radha Soami followers cut trees on farmers land

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PUDA ‘violates’ stay order
Demarcates land for Sec 76
Tribune News Service

SAS Nagar, November 19
Confusion prevailed among certain land owners of Sohana village, who had got a stay from the Punjab and Haryana High Court regarding dispossession of their land, when officials of the engineering wing of the Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA) went there to demarcate the land for the proposed Sector 76.

A land holder, who own pockets of land in the proposed five sectors, alleged that the PUDA officials had come to demarcate land for Radha Soami Satsang which had been allotted around 200 acres of land in the proposed sector. Brig Harcharan Singh Baidwan, who owns five kilas of land, said the followers of the religious sect, accompanying the PUDA officials, cut down three trees and some bushes on his land.

He showed a demarcation point left behind by the PUDA staff. He and other land holders apprehended that PUDA was reallotting land to the religious sect around their pockets.

No official of the Radha Soami Satsang could be contacted for comments. However, a senior PUDA official said the officials had just gone to demarcate the land for the planning of proposed Sector 76. A survey of the area was being conducted.