A sensational case of selling a park in mid of the city has come to fore. The morale of the culprits was so high that they did not only sell the Government-owned park under administration's nose but also done plotting over it. The interesting point is that all the while district administration remained unaware of the happenings.
The sons of the watchman of Nehru Park sold the park spread over two acres in the middle of the city. The administration awakened only when the coloniser who purchased the park started doing plotting over it. The administration is now saying that it would investigate the whole thing and the documents regarding the ownership of the park land would be cross checked.
According to information available with The Pioneer, the Britishers established this park behind the district hospital in the year 1931 over two acres of land. In 70s, statue of Jawaharlal Nehru was placed in it and since then the place started to be known as Nehru Park.
Sehore Municipality appointed Gopal Kushwaha as watchman of the park in the year 1975. A piece of land from the park was given through Patta to Kushwaha in the name of his wife Kalawati for construction of house. Since the death of Kushwaha and his wife his two sons are living in that house. A few years back the sons of Kushwaha Sanand and Anand sold the whole park to a coloniser.
The coloniser after doing plotting over sold it on very high rates to many people. Those who purchased the plots also applied for diversion of the land use in Nuzul.The matter was exposed when the SDM Hridesh Shrivastava reached the place on Sunday for taking action under the ongoing drive against the illegal colonies.
The sons of the watchman claimed that they have the permanent patta of the whole two acres of land but when the revenue records were checked it was found to be in the name of park.
Shrivastava while talking to The Pioneer said that the land is registered in the name of park in revenue records. Documents are being examined and notice has been issued to the coloniser who sold plots.