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DSGMC gets Bala Sahib Hospital after legal battle Tribune News Service New Delhi, September 4 The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) today took possession of Bala Sahib Hospital after years of long legal battle in the Delhi High Court. The case was fought by Kuldeep Singh Bhogal, a senior leader of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal). The DSGMC will soon start the hospital to fulfil the dreams of Baba Harbans Singh Ji Kar Sewa Wale who had got the building of 400-bed hospital constructed with the money donated by the Sikh community. Baba had conceived the idea of a charitable hospital to help poor people, said DSGMC president Manjit Singh GK and general secretary Manjinder Singh Sirsa said. They said the DSGMC will consult with the civil engineers to examine the building conditions. If it is found fit, the capacity of the beds can be increased to 800. The controversy to run the hospital had started in 2007 when the then DSGMC president Paramjit Singh Sarna had signed a lease agreement with a Manipal company to run the hospital. Later, he signed the same agreement with BL Kapoor. The agreement was challenged in the court by Kuldeep Singh Bhogal. Bhogal had also filed a case against Sarna when he had constituted a trust in the name of hospital. Bhogal had claimed in the court that the hospital trust is illegal. The land of the hospital belongs to the DSGMC that itself is a trust. Today, the court had given possession of the hospital to the present DSGMC, led by Manjit Singh (GK) when the committee had paid an amount of Rs 13.25 crore to B L Kapoor, that is included the principal amount of Rs 12.75 crore. Source - http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/delhi/dsgmc-gets-bala-sahib-hospital-after-legal-battle/128966.html