Former Chief Minister and BJP Legislature Party leader Babulal Marandi has expressed concern over illegal land trade going on indiscriminately in Santhal Pargana, especially in Deoghar. Marandi, alleges that like Ranchi, land scam has taken place in Deoghar on a large scale by manipulation and forgery of documents. Sharing his concerns on social media on Monday, he said that AIIMS and airport have been established in Deoghar which has resulted in skyrocketing land prices in Santhal Paragana. Along with this, due to the worldwide importance of Baba Vaidyayanath, land mafia of not only Jharkhand but also of the border state of West Bengal has been eyeing the land of Deoghar. The CBI is also probing some of the cases there. Godda MP Dr. Nishikant Dubey has seconded the allegation made by Marandi saying that there is a big mafia in Santhal Pargana involved in illegal land dealing.
Marandi, the land scam happening in Deoghar has an inter-state relation with Bengal like Ranchi. Requesting the CBI and ED director, Marandi has said that like Ranchi, they should take up the task of investigating in detail the land scam happening in Deoghar by falsifying documents. Through social media, he also asked PMO, Home Ministry, Income Tax Department, Deoghar DC and Jharkhand CMO to pay attention to this.
Few months back, Marandi has alleged that there is big land scam in Jharkhand in connivance with bureaucrats and political leadership in State. Marandi alleges that there is land scam worth more than Rs 10 thousand crores. He has urged the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to investigate the land scam in depth. According to him, in this government, there has been a lot of land looting business in Ranchi. The ED director should interrogate the responsible people in detail on many important points in the land scam. The faces involved in this business with remote control behind the scenes will also have to be exposed. They will have to be held by the neck because of which Jharkhand is being defamed. Claiming that if the conspiracy of Ranchi land embezzlement is probed deeply, then Sahibganj's famous 1000 crore stone mine loot scam will look dwarf in front of it. More than 10,000 crore scam has happened in Ranchi land scam.
Marandi has said that he talked to many people about the land scam in Ranchi in the JMM/ Congress government. Under the patronage of power, brokers, some money greedy administrative and police officers together have done such an act of corruption.