The Gwalior Commissioner has warned the revenue officials of stern legal actions, if they are found engaged in corrupt practices by presenting forged reports in land-related cases.
This was instructed by the Gwalior Commissioner KK Khare to all district Collectors. He said that land mafia strongly occupied the land of widows, minors, aged people and weaker sections of the society. This illegal occupied land was inspected by revenue officers, patwaris and under the Act of 1959 IPC 250 and naib tehsildar presented writ in the court.
According to Gwalior Commissioner, Naib Tehsildar, Tehsildars under the section 250 of the IPC reviewed the writ and the revenue inspector, patwari inspected the land and submitted the report with the interest of illegal occupied person who have encroached upon the land and in the report they write that the land was possessed for the last 30-40years, whereas the inspector during the duty should write that on which date the inspection was conducted and what is the status of the land.
During the review meeting of property tax, four tax collectors were given appreciation letter and on the other hand notice was served to other tax collectors for their carelessness towards the assignment.
Gwalior Municipal Commissioner has given notices to nine tax collectors as of their careless attitude towards their assignment. They are- Dinesh Goyal, Mukesh Savita, Shrikrishna Yadav, Shailendra Kaurav, Harendra Mishra, Abha Deshmukh, Shailendra Chauhan, Alok Karosiya and Shirsagar. Also he has given appreciation to four Tax collectors and they are lokendra Chauhan, Zoheb Sidiqqui, Brijpal Singh Bhadoriya and Rajesh Shrivastava.