At least 103 acres of Government land under Tetulia Mouza at Chas block of Bokaro district was freed of encroachment on Friday.
The land scam was unearthed after the SIT probe in Bokaro. These land plots actually notified forest land and Gair Majurwa (Government), land which was handed over to Bokaro Steel Plant (BSl) in 1962 for establishment of the steel plant. But The BSl management did not utilise the land and it was illegally transferred to the locals, said SDO.
According to the forest conservative act BSl has to return the lands to the forest department if it was not getting utilized for the plant’s purpose, but the management did not do so. “A notice has been served to the BSl’s CEO and its one GM”, he added.
Meanwhile, a case has been filed against six builders, four land brokers/sellers and 7 landlords who purchased the land, said SDO.
On the directive of Deputy Commissioner Bokaro Rai Mahimapat Ray aforesaid Government lands, an estimated worth of 150 crores was freed. Making conspiracy then Chas circle officer Nirmal Toppo illegally transferred the lands to the locals with succession-mutation documents.
Recently Deputy Development Director Ramlakhan Prasad Gupta submitted a detailed report to the DC in which he accused Toppo (CO) for transferring the Government land to the locals. After the report a special investigating team (SIT) investigated into the matter and found huge land scam, said and district administrative official.
The team found that the illegal transfer of Government and forest land was done massively in Tetuliah, said DDC adding “It was found during investigation that, the illegal transfer of land kicks-off in the year 2012 during the tenure of Circle Officer Toppo”.Based on fake documents Toppo had done the mutation of the forest land, which was later sold at higher rates to the residents, said DDC.