GNS JAMMU, Dec : Infamous Editor of State Times, Raj Daluja alias Raji, who was a petty worker at a wine shop at Gandhi Nagar in 1975-76 for a meager sum of ` 700 a month, today has a long list of assets, most of which have been encroached upon, captured illegally and forcibly from business competitors or managed with the patronage of some disgruntled officials and businessmen, whom he blackmailed by getting them photographed.
Fourteen wine shops, two liquor depots and a bottling plant are just a tip of iceberg as Raji’s assets ranged from a showroom at Trikuta Nagar to a huge list of buildings, most of which have come up on encroached land. The liquor vendor has not even spared the pious field of education and was running educational institutions at two places, cheating the people that one of them located at Panjtirthi was affiliated to CBSE.
Raji had been running several business concerns including wine shops on his own name and the name of his family members including Devinder Daluja, brother, Suman Daluja, wife, Ram Pyari, mother, Neelam Daluja, sister-in-law and Sahil Gupta (son of sister-in-law). He owned a number of benami properties at the name of his relatives and staff members etc.
Daluja had also purchased many properties on the name of his brother-in-law and his most trusted lieutenant Kamal Gupta son of Chuni Lal Gupta, a resident of Rehari Colony, who today himself owned a fleet of colleges and schools under the patronage of his disgraced brother-in-law.
According to authoritative sources, Raji had encroached upon about 600 kanals of agriculture land on the name of his wife, Suman Daluja at village Raipur Jagir in Kot area. He was pressurizing the Revenue authorities to tamper with the record to convert the land on the name of his wife.
The Revenue Department has so far resisted the pressure, they said but admitted that Raji was known for adopting all kind of unhealthy practices to win over the officials to get the land record converted.
Raji has raised Daluja Farms in over 50 kanals of land at Thandi Khui near Vijaypur.
He has opened two educational institutions with the name and style of JK Public School at Panjtirthi and Kunjwani. Though JK Public School, Panjtirthi was affiliated to State Board of School Education, Raji had been claiming its affiliation to CBSE to lure students subjecting their career to stake.
Sources said JK Public School, Panjtirthi didn’t fulfill the norms and guidelines laid down by the Board of School Education for the schools, which included proper infrastructure.
Raji also owned Fit and Fine Water, a poultry farm at Gidhar Galian, Muralian in Miran Sahib, Feminity Cosmetics Showroom at Trikuta Nagar, Anchor House at Deeli, Anand Bhawan at New Plots, a bungalow comprising House Nos. 181, 182 and 192 at Sector 1, Trikuta Nagar, another house at Green Belt Park, Gandhi Nagar and share in some colleges. Most of the buildings of his business concerns had entire or part of them as encroached land.
Even his own residence at Trikuta Nagar comprised 14 marlas of JDA land worth nearly ` 1 crore. The office of State Times was also located on Nazool land while Sahil Bar and Restaurant had a major chunk of JDA land at Railway Station.
As reported, Raji had also encroached upon the Government land at Janglote, Kathua along with Kamal Gupta, where the people wanted University Campus and rehabilitation of oustees of Campus land.
In addition to this, Raji has several properties on the name of his relatives and workers, sources said.
Fourteen wine shops, two liquor depots and a bottling plant are just a tip of iceberg as Raji’s assets ranged from a showroom at Trikuta Nagar to a huge list of buildings, most of which have come up on encroached land. The liquor vendor has not even spared the pious field of education and was running educational institutions at two places, cheating the people that one of them located at Panjtirthi was affiliated to CBSE.
Raji had been running several business concerns including wine shops on his own name and the name of his family members including Devinder Daluja, brother, Suman Daluja, wife, Ram Pyari, mother, Neelam Daluja, sister-in-law and Sahil Gupta (son of sister-in-law). He owned a number of benami properties at the name of his relatives and staff members etc.
Daluja had also purchased many properties on the name of his brother-in-law and his most trusted lieutenant Kamal Gupta son of Chuni Lal Gupta, a resident of Rehari Colony, who today himself owned a fleet of colleges and schools under the patronage of his disgraced brother-in-law.
According to authoritative sources, Raji had encroached upon about 600 kanals of agriculture land on the name of his wife, Suman Daluja at village Raipur Jagir in Kot area. He was pressurizing the Revenue authorities to tamper with the record to convert the land on the name of his wife.
The Revenue Department has so far resisted the pressure, they said but admitted that Raji was known for adopting all kind of unhealthy practices to win over the officials to get the land record converted.
Raji has raised Daluja Farms in over 50 kanals of land at Thandi Khui near Vijaypur.
He has opened two educational institutions with the name and style of JK Public School at Panjtirthi and Kunjwani. Though JK Public School, Panjtirthi was affiliated to State Board of School Education, Raji had been claiming its affiliation to CBSE to lure students subjecting their career to stake.
Sources said JK Public School, Panjtirthi didn’t fulfill the norms and guidelines laid down by the Board of School Education for the schools, which included proper infrastructure.
Raji also owned Fit and Fine Water, a poultry farm at Gidhar Galian, Muralian in Miran Sahib, Feminity Cosmetics Showroom at Trikuta Nagar, Anchor House at Deeli, Anand Bhawan at New Plots, a bungalow comprising House Nos. 181, 182 and 192 at Sector 1, Trikuta Nagar, another house at Green Belt Park, Gandhi Nagar and share in some colleges. Most of the buildings of his business concerns had entire or part of them as encroached land.
Even his own residence at Trikuta Nagar comprised 14 marlas of JDA land worth nearly ` 1 crore. The office of State Times was also located on Nazool land while Sahil Bar and Restaurant had a major chunk of JDA land at Railway Station.
As reported, Raji had also encroached upon the Government land at Janglote, Kathua along with Kamal Gupta, where the people wanted University Campus and rehabilitation of oustees of Campus land.
In addition to this, Raji has several properties on the name of his relatives and workers, sources said.
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