Tightening the noose around land grabbers, who forcibly encroached the forest land at Bokaro the district forest official, lodged criminal cases against six. Necessary legal actions would be taken earliest against rest of the forest land encroachers, said PR Naidu DFO Bokaro.
In the matter of forest land encroachment, case has been filed under Indian Forest Act against AK Singh, DN Choudhary, Md Ansari, Y Singh and Pawan Kumar, informed the official. “We also got the information that illegal mining are rampant on forest land. We are investigating into matter and strict action would be taken,” said the official.
Recently huge land scam unearthed at Bokaro. In a probe about 96 thousands acres of Government lands found illegally transferred to the people while about 8,000 acres of land has been unearthed under suspicious settlement in Bokaro district.
During the probe it has come to light that the beneficiaries include some Government officials and their relatives too, sources in the district administration said.
“Notice has been served to those land owners. However about 4,500 land owners have been served eviction order across the district while few of them have been asked to submit a written reply”, said the official.
In the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe (on land scam) at least 48,000 cases of illegal transfer of more than 96,000 acres of Government lands to the locals with succession-mutation documents have been found across the Bokaro district, said the official adding “these pieces of lands actually belong to the Government”.
Since the year 2,000 many plots of land were illegally transferred in Bokaro based on fake documents and then the circle officers had also done mutation of forest and Government land, which were later sold at higher rates to the residents and several industrial houses to set up their plants, said an official on condition of anonymity.