Chandigarh: Savitri Jindal, said to be India's richest woman, was on Friday asked by the Punjab and Haryana High Court to vacate within 15 days her government accommodation, which she had been occupying unauthorisedly.
The court said that if Jindal failed to vacate the government bungalow within the stipulated time, the estate officer here would complete eviction proceedings within six weeks.
Jindal, a legislator of the ruling Congress in Haryana and mother of industrial tycoon and high-profile MP Naveen Jindal, has been occupying a ministerial bungalow in Chandigarh's upscale Sector 7 even though she ceased to be a minister in 2009.
She has been listed by a leading publication as the country's richest woman as she lords over a huge multi-billion steel and power sector empire being the chairperson of the Jindal group. Her name also figures among the Top-100 richest people in the world....
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