Punjab ex-deputy speaker moves HC

Former Punjab assembly deputy speaker Nasib Singh Gill and his brother Manjit Singh Gill approached the Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday challenging the Chandigarh district court's order of May 20 sentencing them to three-and-a-half years in jail for illegally occupying non-resident Indian's (NRI) house at Sector 18-A, Chandigarh.

Former Punjab assembly deputy speaker Nasib Singh Gill and his brother Manjit Singh Gill approached the Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday challenging the Chandigarh district court's order of May 20 sentencing them to three-and-a-half years in jail for illegally occupying non-resident Indian's (NRI) house at Sector 18-A, Chandigarh.

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Taking up the petition, the high court bench headed by justice Jitendra Chauhan issued a notice of motion to the Chandigarh administration.
Naresh Chander Ghai had filed a complaint in April 1988 under various sections of the Indian Penal Code relating to cheating, trespassing and criminal conspiracy alleging that Nasib Singh Gill and his two brothers had illegally occupied his NRI uncle Naubat Rai Kapoor's house in Sector 18.

In September 2008, Nasib Singh and Manjit Singh were acquitted by a trial court but the appeal was filed before the sessions court where the district and sessions judge SK Aggarwal sentenced the duo on May 20 to three-and-a-half years of imprisonment.

However, the case against Nasib Singh's second brother, Sukhdev Singh Gill, is still pending before the district court. He was earlier declared proclaimed offender in July 2000.