Ghaziabad: On the directives of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minster Yogi Adityanath, a senior Jet Airways official has been arrested from New Delhi on land grabbing charges, police said in Ghaziabad on Sunday.
Avneet Singh Bedi, posted in Mumbai as Jet Airways' chief security officer, was arrested on Saturday night from his Panchsheel Park residence in south Delhi based on a complaint by the Joint Municipal Commissioner, Ghaziabad, Arun Kumar Gupta.
The complaint alleged that Bedi, a retired Army colonel, grabbed 945 square metres of government land in Chikamberpur village on the Delhi-UP border.
Jet Airways Vice President(Security) Col. Avneet Singh Bedi arrested in Sahibabad on charges of land grabbing pic.twitter.com/0vmO3vQlVs— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) July 2, 2017
A part of the land, measuring 532 square metres, was rented out to a transport company and he used the rest of it as an approach road to enter the transport godown, Superintendent of Police Akash Tomar said.
On the directives of Adityanath, the administration has launched a drive to check land grabbing and is taking action against criminals, the officer said.
A spokesperson of the airline said it "does not comment on personal matters of its executives/employees".
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