Chandigarh, May 4 -- The Punjab and Haryana High Court has sought response from the Chandigarh administration, the Punjab government, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and several serving and retired IPS officers on a petition alleging a multi-crore fraud involving a housing society formed for Punjab Police personnel for construction of flats in New Chandigarh.

Justice Jagmohan Bansal issued the notice while hearing a petition filed by The Punjab Police Primary Consumers Cooperative Society Limited and fixed August 20 for the next hearing.

The petition seeks a court-monitored CBI probe into allegations of embezzlement of more than Rs.146 crore and the alleged fraudulent transfer of nearly 60 acres of society land in New Chandiga...