SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, Aug 25: Confused Property Administration Department of State Financial institution of India (SBI) Kolkata auctioned Skylark Resort Non-public Restricted, the Dhanbad-based lodge of former chief minister of Punjab Sardar Darbara Singh.
In keeping with sources, SBI Kolkata offered the lodge via e-auction on Wednesday. The bottom value of the lodge was placed on Rs 32 crores for the bid. The officers at Dhanbad refused to share the details about who had the final bid for the lodge and at what value it was finalized. All the pieces was achieved from Kolkata via a web-based course of.
Skylark Resort, stated to be the primary three-star lodge within the coal metropolis, belongs to the sons of former Punjab CM Sardar Darbara Singh (1980 to 83). His three sons Joginder Singh Johal, Devendra Singh Johal and Surjit Singh Johal run the lodge.
Later, shares of two different brothers have been transferred within the title of elder brother Joginder Singh Johal’s spouse Amarjeet Kaur. Surjit Singh Johal died in Dhanbad whereas two different brothers shifted to Punjab. The lodge had landed in Debt Restoration Tribunal (DRT) Kolkata. The SBI had placed on discover of motion on the gate of the lodge final month.
Johal brothers owned coal mines in Katras of Dhanbad in 1967. However after the nationalization of coal mines, they shifted enterprise to different sectors and opened the primary 3-star lodge in Dhanbad in 1978. Skylark Resort was a favorite vacation spot of Cine star Shatrughan Sinha who at any time when visited Dhanbad used to remain there not less than for an hour.
Resort fell into debt after abduction of supervisor
Sources stated Skylark Resort fell into debt after the kidnapping of its govt director Uday Shankar Chandra in 2011.
Uday Shankar Chandra alongside together with his driver was kidnapped on technique to Kolkata from Dhanbad on July 2, 2011. He was going by Hyundai Verna automotive to his son’s home based mostly in Thakurpukur Behala of Kolkata. Reportedly, he was kidnapped close to Chowringhee Crossing.
One month afterward August 1, 2011, he was launched by abductors in Asansol (Bengal) reportedly after paying a heavy quantity of ransom. Nonetheless, police and relations denied paying ransom to the abductors.