A case has been registered against about two dozen people including Patwari, Sarpanch, Secretary of lara Gram Panchayt and others for their alleged involvement in a major land fraud case. No arrests has been made so far in the case, a senior police officer said on Monday.
The Patwari of area in connivance with Sarpanch and others had allegedly fraudulently added name of about two dozen people in the land record of two persons, the Superintendent of Police, Rahul Bhagat told The Pioneer over phone.
Meanwhile, the Station House Officer of Pusor, Vivekananda informed that Dilip Gupta and Deepak Gupta had registered a complaint in this regard.“Dilip Gupta and Deepak Gupta own 504 hectares and 429 hectares of land in Pusor area. The accused allegedly fraudulently tampered the land records and got the several pieces of land- ranging from 5 dismil, 10 dismil and others sizes- transferred in the name of the accused,” the SHO said.
The SHO further informed that the mentioned land comes under the area to be acquired by National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) limited for its upcoming power plant in lara region.Police further said that case has been registered against the Patwari, Keshaw Prasad Rathiya, Sarpanch Saraswati Saral and Panchayat Secretary Prateek Chouhan. Apart from them, cases have also been registered against about other 20 persons under the relevant Sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC).