Chandigarh: Permission has been given to prosecute former AIG Ashish Kapoor in the disproportionate assets case. The investigating agency has found new evidence in the corruption case. Based on this, the Home Secretary has given permission to proceed with the case. Vigilance will file a challan after presenting concrete evidence. AIG Kapoor accumulated a huge amount of income in his name and the name of his family members.
Vigilance has received details of properties in Chandigarh, Mohali, and other places in the name of Kapoor and his wife Kamal Kapoor. Kapoor was arrested in October 2022. He is now out on bail. The challan has been filed in the case of serious allegations leveled by a woman. Ashish was recruited as an inspector on November 12, 1993.
Earlier, 19 Marla 112 VG was registered in the name of Ashish Kapoor on April 28, 1993. This purchase was made in Jalandhar for Rs 200000. Apart from the ancestral house of his father Hussan Lal Kapoor in Jalandhar, neither Ashish Kapoor nor his father inherited any other immovable property.
Ashish Kapoor set up Ashish Kapoor (HUF) in 2001, of which he himself is the founder, and his wife Kamal Kapoor and two sons are co-partners. There is no information yet about when, through what means and resources the assets of this HUF were created and what businesses were carried out, but the income tax returns filed by the said HUF have been found to be false.
Vigilance officials say that during the period from 01 August 2017 to 31 August 2022, unaccounted expensive immovable properties were found in the names of Ashish Kapoor and his wife Kamal Kapoor in Chandigarh and Mohali.