Chennai: The country’s authority investigating highway fraud covering two decades in Sriperumbudur seems to have opened canned worms.
The recent developments showed that an officer had marked malpractice related to fraud in 2007 and asked for CB-CID investigation, but the problem was never taken.
Fraud concerns about revenue department officials who issued illegal patta for government land worth several hundred crores in 46 villages in Chennai, Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur, Pudukkottai and Tiruvannamalai.
Government documents from twenty years ago, which have emerged during the investigation, showed that assistant completion officers (ASO) from Tiruvannamalai collected fictitic petitions, prepared office copies and simultaneously provided an illegal twenty years.
Some ASOS even handed over a fair copy to the prosecutors.
In some of these files, ASO has proven its signature with the date in 2000.
The prosecutors have produced documents needed for Pattas only in 2001 and 2002.
It shows that fraud commands and are prepared by fraud.
Some orders made by Aso did not even have office seals on them, said documents accessed by TOI.
Rameshram Mishra, Commissioner of Land Administration (CLA) in 2007, has found this fraud practice and recommends that the CB-CID probe be initiated into this issue.
He had requested then the director of the survey and settlement to inform all district collectors related to false orders issued by ASOS from the Tiruvannnamalai office.
Mishra, in a letter to the director, urged the collectors to be instructed not to implement the false command in the village account.
If the land has been reclassified, they must be restored to the original position (Porambo Government, anadeenam etc.), Mishra wrote.
If the Director of Survey and Settlement in the Revenue Department has immediately acted on Mishra’s letter, fraud will be removed a decade and further losses for avoidable.
For example, the National Highway Authority (NHAI) has obtained nine hectares of land for the expansion of Jalan Raya Chennai-Bengaluru (NH-4) in 2018 and has provided compensation for “owners” for it.
The land actually belongs to the government and the compensation paid is a loss.
Nhai did not need to spend something to use land, Sumber Nhai said, asking for anonymity.
“But the illegal pathta prepared by ASOS mislead us.
The land of the patta means it is private property.
So Nhai finally spend ₹ 126 crore to get nine hectares of 85 Picta holders in only one village (Beemanthangal near Sriperumbudur).
So, imagine the losses that occur During the acquisition of land in 45 villages, “added the source.
Among 85 Patta holders, two were arrested because they colluded with government authorities.
Pattas issued for 83 others canceled.
TN officials prepared a fake docus for Govt Land in 46 villages
