The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Madhya Pradesh police on Thursday raided five premises of builders and officials of former CMO of Kolar Municipality after receiving complaints regarding facilitation of building permissions against the rules. The cops recovered a haul of documents regarding undeclared property worth crores of rupees.
Builders were provided with building permissions in return of hefty amounts. In the scam high rank officials facilitated the permissions flouting all rules and regulations.
Notably, the then chairman of Sarvadharma Housing Society Mohammad Riyaz Khan and Munnawar Khan sold a piece of land without the consent of the society members and with the help of Nitin Agrawal, P Raju, Rajesh Shrivastava, Vinod Tripathi and Vinod Jain. later building permission was obtained.
Offices of Swadesh Developers and Colonisers headed by Nitin Agrawal and P Raju were raided by EOW on Thursday. Assistant Engineer and CMO of Kolar Municipal Council helped the builders by providing building permission in return of hefty amount.
In the investigation, involvement of officials of Kolar Municipal Council and former CMO of Kolar Municipal Council was found. The action was taken after receiving several complaints regarding providing building permissions to many buildings in the region.
During the raids, house of former CMO Kolar Municipal Council Rajesh Shrivastava at Fortune City in Misrod was also raided and in the raid several documents regarding massive unaccounted wealth were seized. Several files regarding the permissions and other property details were recovered from Vinod Tripathi’s house at Chunabhatti.
Till the filing of the report investigation was under process by EOW teams at former CMO Rajesh Shrivastava, former Assistant Engineer Vinod Tripathi, Nitin Agrawal and P Raju’s residence.