Regarding the alleged sale of lands under the ownership of ITBP-run academy in Mussoorie measuring around 800 bigha and also Government and forest lands measuring around 150 bigha in the academy’s neighbourhood by property dealers in connivance with some revenue and forest officials, IG Garhwal Range Sanjay Kumar Gunjyal said that SIT members had conducted preliminary investigation and a report has been sent to Garhwal commissioner on December 25. An FIR will be lodged against the property dealers and the revenue and forest officials allegedly involved in these deals soon, he added.
Mention worthy, around a month ago, IG Garhwal Gunjiyal was informed by some local residents of Mussoorie that the lands under the ownership of ITBP –run academy aside from large swathe of government and forest lands had been sold off by some property dealers. Gunjiyal had directed the SIT to conduct investigation of the complaint. In course of investigation, SIT officials found that the complaints had substances. It was also found that lands measuring around 950 bighas had been sold off in connivance with some revenue and forest officials in lieu of crores.
Police sources said that ITBP officials are yet to complete the mutation of these lands.
Thy further said that in 1933, one Raghu Raj Singh had purchased these lands from the administrator general of UP. In 1964, Raghuraj’s son Raghupratap had sold these lands to another person and later lands were acquired by UP government after the owners were given adequate compensation. On May 31, 1988, these lands were given to ITBP for establishing its academy. Training programme is being undertaken for police officers in the academy for the past 25 years.
However, as mutation was not done of these lands the owner of these lands was shown to be Raghupratap in the revenue records. Raghupratap along with some property dealers had allegedly sold these lands multiple times to several persons from Uttarakhand, Western UP, Delhi and other states from time to time.
In course of investigation, SIT had stepped on around 30 registries of these lands and many more registries might have been done, police said. More importantly, some of the purchasers had completed construction works on the disputed lands. Property dealers had earned crores by selling these lands, police sources said, adding that the purchasers are all set to lose their ownership.