Finally laying hands on big fish, a case of cheating along with other serious offenses was registered against Sanjay Bajpai Builders the construction major of city on Friday. Bajpai by using forged documents sold several acres of valuable governmental land situated in Sezbahar, Dunda and Devpuri informed Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) IH Khan.
According to police Sanjay Bajpai had encroached five plots of government land situated at Devpuri of area 26 Acers, 26.96 acres, 33.72 acres, 3.65 acres and 1.64 acres respectively. Similarly the builder encroached 51.94 acres of government land in Sezbahar areas. likewise
two lands of area 61.70 acres and 50.85 acres of government land stated in Boriakhurd was also found encroached by the builder.
On the behalf of town and country planning Joint Secretary Sandeep Bagde had registered a complaint. Police have booked Sanjay Bajpai under Sections 420, 467, 468 and 471 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) that reads to Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property, Forgery of valuable security, will, etc. forgery for purpose of
cheating and using as genuine a forged document.
Notably the committee probing Kamal Vihar government land encroachment case at Dunda, Sejbahar and Boriyakala villages has completed its investigation and had recommended filing of First Information Report (FIR) against the builder. Joint Director, City and Village Investment Directorate Zahid Ali has already been suspended with immediate effect in connection with the case. The committee found that Ali during his tenure had committed irregularities while offering development permission while violating the provisions of Chhattisgarh Civil Service Discipline Rule 1965 (Rule-3).
The probe on encroachment of the Kamal Vihar scheme was held under the chairmanship of CEO , RDA with Section Officer (Revenue), Tehsildar, Raipur, Joint Director, City and Village Investment Directorate , Regional Office, Raipur and Deputy Registrar, District Registration Office, Raipur as members of the committee.
The two-point reference of the probe was—1. To find out how much of the government land had been encroached upon by carrying out limitation exercise of the government land and the land surrounding the government land. To also investigate whether the encroachers had got the layout plan of the land also endorsed, 2. The role of the departmental officers is endorsing the layout plan.
The probe committee had informed the Government that the said builder had encroached 9.714 hectares of allotted government land at Dunda, Sezbahar and Boriyakala villages and carried out more than 250 plottings while selling them as his own land to the people while cheating them.
It had been stated in the report that Sanjay Bajpai was offered endorsement for eight layouts in the said villages.
It was also found during investigation that the layout for the government land and the nullah were also endorsed while most of the land endorsed in the development permission were not possessed by the builder.