The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch on Tuesday arrested two persons while unearthing a 34- year-old land scam in Bhubaneswar. The arrested persons are former Bhubaneswar Tehsildar Falguni Singh and his brother Sabyasachi Singh.
Briefing mediapersons here, CB ADG Bijay Kumar Sharma said that while Falguni was the teshildar in 1979, he managed to give two acres of Government land to his brother Sabyasachi in the Patia area in a fraudulent manner.
The cost of the land now stands at around Rs 20 crore, Sharma said. “In 1992, Sabyasachi gave the power of attorney of the land to one Bijay Patnaik of Cuttack area who in 2003 sold it to the Odisha Construction and Techno CooperativeSociety.Suspecting irregularities, theBhubaneswar Teshiladar brought the issueto the notice of the EOW of the Crime Branch in 2003,” said Sharma.
“We established facts against the duo and arrested them. They were sent to court after their bail pleas were rejected,” Sharma added.
On the other hand, the family members of the arrested persons expressed their disagreement by threatening to move to court of law against the arrest .