government had initiated the probe soon after FIA Lahore registered an FIR 131/2015 on August 25, 2015, against the accused persons for allegedly illegally transferring the land, worth billion of rupees, in Rap Parshad in Depalpur.
On August 31, 2015, the chief minister had ordered Commissioner Sahiwal Azmat Majeed and Chairman Chief Minister Inspection Team (CMIT) Irfan Ali to hold an inquiry into the issue and submit a report.
On the recommendations of senior government officers, the CM ordered Director General ACE Punjab to hold an inquiry into the issue and fix all the accused persons who had allegedly committed the crime.
Munawar Hussain, son of Guru Mahant named Munur Das, ran the affairs of Mauza Parshad called Udassi Shrine Trust property till 1974. After partition, he converted to Islam and adopted Ghulam Rasool as his new name. He contracted marriage with Noor Bibi and they had a boy Munawar Hussain.
When Ghulam Rasool died in 1951, his widow filed a property claim but in 1954, the then Collector of Montgomery (now Sahiwal) declared the property as Trust Evacuee property.
The Udassi Shrine Trust was looking after the affairs of the land till 12-04-1969, when Custodian of the revenue formally transferred the property in favour of the trust.
After Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) was formed in 1975, the then chairman of the board declared property of Udassi Shrine Trust as ETPB’s property on April 7, 1977. Munawar and his mother Noor challenged the decision through a petition before the federal secretary, religious affairs, which was dismissed.
Munawar and Noor challenged the secretary’s decision in the Lahore High Court (LHC) and the court referred the matter back to the federal secretary.
The federal secretary referred the case to chairman ETPB to decide the case on merit impugning the order of the then chairman ETPB on April 7, 1977. The matter is still pending with the ETPB chairman.
In the meantime, revenue officers of Dipalpur allegedly fraudulently transferred the land in the name of Munawar Hussain in June 2014. The land was further sold out to some 18 other persons.