Two more officials were suspended on Thursday, separately by Delhi Lieutenant-Governor (L-G) Vinai Kumar Saxena and Delhi Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar, in connection with alleged corruption concerning illegal sale of Government land, two days after the L-G sacked three officials in the same case.

A Sub-Registrar of the Delhi Government's Revenue Department has been suspended for "fraudulent" transfer of a land parcel to a private party.

Delhi Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar suspended Hauz Khas Sub-Registrar DC Sahoo on Wednesday for the transfer of prime Delhi Development Authority (DDA) land worth several crores to a private party on Josip Broz Tito Marg in Chirag Delhi. Disciplinary action has been initiated against the Sub-Registrar and some more officials involved in the land transfer may also face action, sources said.

The land parcel measuring 1,250 square yard, valued around Rs 30 crore, was situated near the BRT corridor. A complaint was lodged and action was taken after the matter came to the knowledge of locals of the area.

 The land is owned by the village panchayat and meant for community use but it was first transferred to an individual and then to a private entity in a "fraudulent" manner, sources added.

The matter was brought to the notice of Delhi Assembly's petition committee after which records were scrutinised and it was found that the land was transferred to a cultivator although no cultivation had taken place on it.

"Action was taken against the Sub-Registrar as he had registered the sale deed of the land 'without proper verification' that would have revealed it was Government land," sources added. Sources said that Ramesh Kumar the then Kanoongo of the area and record room in-charge has also been put under suspension in the same case. “The Delhi Government and Raj Niwas had been receiving several complaints about the said Sub-Registrar from MPs and MLAs cutting across party lines as indeed individual citizens and groups living in that area. Serious charges of corruption that included blatant demand of bribes for registering properties, subversion of documents and high handedness were brought to his notice,” Delhi Government officials said. On June 21, the L-G suspended three officials — two Sub-Divisional Magistrates and one Deputy Secretary in the Chief Minister’s Office — over charges of corruption in transfer of evacuee properties to private entities between 2015 and 2021. Senior officials who asked not to be named said the four officials suspended by the L-G were posted as SDM Alipur at different times and allegedly passed orders giving away ownership of evacuee land, vested with the Government of India, to private entities.