Nisha Rathode (Editor)

Sukhbir Kataria

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Citizenship
  
Indian

Name
  
Sukhbir Kataria

Occupation
  
Politician


Spouse(s)
  
Ritu Kataria

Nationality
  
Indian

Role
  
Indian Politician

Sukhbir Kataria haryanaassemblygovinWriteReadDataMLAsPhotogra

Born
  
September 9, 1964 (age 59) Gurgaon (
1964-09-09
)

Prime hindi sukhbir kataria fake voter id cards case 3 dec 2013


Sukhbir Kataria is an Indian politician and a member of Legislative Assembly of Haryana. He won the Haryana Legislative Assembly election, 2009 being an independent candidate from Gurgaon constituency.

Contents

Sukhbir Kataria httpsiytimgcomvidnXUmAJpZ7Qhqdefaultjpg

Mr sukhbir kataria sports minister of state haryana at sanjay gram gurgaon 2


Early life

Kataria was born on 9 September 1964 in Gurgaon in the Indian state of Haryana to father Ch. Bhim Singh Kataria.

Career

In 1995, Kataria was elected as a Vice-chairman of Block Samiti of Gurgaon, and the Sarpanch of the Gurgaon village in 2000. He also held the post of Municipal Councilor of Gurgaon in 2005.

In 2009 Kataria was elected as an independent candidate from Gurgaon constituency to the Haryana legislative assembly. He was among the richest candidates in Haryana, with a reported wealth of 30 crore. He campaigned on a platform of infrastructure improvements. He gave his support to the government of Hooda and was appointed the minister of agriculture and cooperation, and youth and sports.

Kataria is accused of forging documents and to provide his relatives and supporters multiple Voter ID cards in 2009 Haryana state assembly election. On 10 February 2012, he was summoned by the Judicial magistrate to answer the compalint of forgery, cheating, criminal conspiracy and violating Representation of the People's Act, 1950, filed by Umesh Agrawal, a BJP candidate in the 2009 state election. A police case was initially registered on 5 January 2013. On 14 November 2013, Gurgaon civil court ordered to register a police case against Kataria for providing wrong information in reply to an application submitted through Right to Information Act by Om Prakash Kataria, chief of NGO Matdata Jagrookta Manch. In 2014, a petition was filed against Kataria by Om Prakash Kataria in Haryana district court alleging, he is involved in making of illegal Voter identity cards and Ration cards using fake documents, and demanding registration of a criminal case against him. On 5 March 2014, the Judicial magistrate of the district court ordered to lodge a police case against Kataria and a case was registered against him in Sector 5 police station, Gurgaon for cheating, faking documents and criminal conspiracy under sections 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code. On 9 February 2014, the court of Judicial magistrate, Gurgaon ordered to register another police case against Kataria for his alleged involvement in forgery, cheating and criminal conspiracy. It was the number seven police case against Kataria.

Personal life

Kataria married Ritu Kataria in 1990. They have two children, one son and one daughter.

References

Sukhbir Kataria Wikipedia