Overview
- Tarn Taran police arrested SDM Anupreet Kaur Randhawa at her Gurdaspur residence on Saturday after receiving an investigation report, the district police chief said.
- Investigators allege that between January 2018 and February 2019 she approved payouts of about Rs 1.63 crore to five people whose land was not acquired for National Highway 54.
- The case began with a September 5, 2019 FIR at City Patti police station after an internal probe led by then SDM Navraj Singh Brar found irregular transfers.
- A deputy commissioner’s inquiry preceded her suspension by the then chief secretary, and in 2021 she and her brother were also booked in a separate Rs 88 lakh misappropriation case.
- NH‑54 links Jammu, Amritsar and Bathinda to Rajasthan, and the acquisition drive traces back to a 2013 central government notification.