Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala on Thursday made it clear that strict legal action and vigilance inquiry will be initiated against officials guilty of registering properties during the lockdown period without obtaining the mandatory No-Objection Certificates (NOCs) in Gurugram district.
The deputy CM was present in the city as the chief guest at a function organized under one-nation-one ration card scheme on Thursday.
Chautala said cases of illegal registration of land and plots without the mandatory NOC from the department of town and country planning (DTCP) is a clear violation of section 7-A of the Haryana Development and Regulation Areas Act, 1975 as controlled area.
As per norms, an agriculture land falling under the control area cannot be bifurcated below the size of 1,200 square yard.
“The matter is under investigation and strict legal action will be taken against the officers or employees found involved in it. The action will not be limited to suspension only. Along with suspending the guilty officials, a criminal case will also be registered against them and a vigilance inquiry will also be conducted,” Chautala said.
He further said such strict actions will help to curb these illegal activities and nobody will take advantage of the loopholes in the system.
“Registration of properties due to irregularities will also be revisited. Stern action will be taken against the involving officials of the revenue department, city and village planning department or urban local bodies department or any other in this matter,” he said.
Soon after the registry scam unearthed in the state the opposition parties launched an attack on the BJP led Manohar Lal Khattar government on the issue, calling it a ‘land registry scam’.
“As the loopholes in the system came to fore and it’s for that reason we have already stopped registration of properties. Now, the people of the state will have a stronger, safer and transparent registration system," the deputy CM further said.
In the Gurugram district, around 1,200 properties have been registered without the mandatory ‘no-objection certificate’ from the DTCP during the lockdown period. This was revealed in a reply to an RTI application filed at district revenue office (DRO) in Gurugram on June 10, 2020.
The registration of these illegal properties was done at seven tehsil offices including Kadipur, Wazirabad, Gurugram, Harsuru, Badshahpur and Sohna.
