CHENNAI: A property acquisition scam, which brought Rs 200 crore reduction to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), has surfaced in Kancheepuram district.
According to a complaint from tahsildar G Venkatesan, Kancheepuram authorities have registered cases from a former Sriperumbudur tahsildar, an helper reimbursement officer along with a private landowner named as Ashish Jain, also called Ashish Mehta.
While Rs 33 crore had been paid to Mehta to get a parcel of 7.67 acres of property for which imitation patta was ready, officials say exactly the identical modus operandi was used to make bogus documents for 82 acres of property to that $200 crore had been compensated by NHAI as compensation.
Given that the magnitude of this fraud and participation of central capital, property management commissioner Pankaj Kumar Bansal has advocated NHAI to deliver the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Records obtained by TOI revealed how NHAI obtained 2.5 acres of their 7.67 acres of property possessed by Ashish Mehta in Beemanthangal village close Sriperumbudur to get six-laning of all National Highway-4.
This bit of property was initially categorized as’anadeenam’ property, vested with all the authorities.
However Shanmugam, a helper compensation officer, ready fake records with survey amounts of another village in Poonamallee at Thiruvallur district to offer patta to 7.67 acres, an evaluation by the manager of questionnaire in 2020 discovered.
Every time a related situation came before the Madras high court, subsequently tahsildar of Sriperumbudur G Radhakrishnan, the sole respondent, didn’t publish the simple fact that forged documents were utilized to find patta to the government property.
Commissioner Bansal advocated the Kancheepuram district collector to reserve Ashish Mehta, the ASO and the ex-tahsildar for entering into a criminal conspiracy to defraud the exchequer.
According to this, G Venkatesan, the current tahsildar, registered a complaint, along with the three are reserved for fraud, criminal and civil conspiracy using forged documents.
The district government has ordered an inquiry into pattas issued to each of plots from the area at Beemanthangal village.
“We have discovered that pattas were issued to 82 acres of authorities (anadeenam along with meikal poramboke) property in and about the village, and orders are passed on to offset the patta,” stated a revenue .
NHAI may have endured near $200 crore reduction due to the fraud,” he explained.
Even though patta has been issued to Ashish Mehta at 2000, the NHAI granted the reimbursement July 2018.
The property administration commissioner event, advocating CBI probe, have been dated March 17, 2021 The FIR was registered on April 23, 2020.
The followup scrutiny by district sales officials to the 82 acres began this past week.