Police team fails to get Ajit Singh's Delhi bungalow vacated - Times of India

NEW DELHI: A Delhi Police team faced opposition when it landed up at former aviation minister Ajit Singh's 12, Tughlaq Road bungalow on Tuesday to get it vacated. Singh is one of the four former UPA ministers who have not vacated their bungalows despite repeated eviction notices served to them in recent months.

"We had sent a team to the bungalow on the direction of the Lok Sabha secretariat to ask the former union minister to vacate the bungalow and did not find him present at the said address. Further action will only be taken once we receive directions from the central government," said a senior police officer.

Sources said Singh's party, Rashtriya Lok Dal, was holding a meeting of sugarcane farmers when the police team arrived. Singh is out of the country. "The quasi-judicial authority responsible for evicting overstaying politicians in government bungalows has been sending teams to different properties in past two months. Once Singh is back, the team with police personnel would go there again to get the house vacated," said a government source.

The bungalow has been allotted to sports minister Sarbananda Sonowal, who has been staying in a private guest house.

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