The Nanjanagudu city police in Mysuru district have registered a case towards a senior Karnataka Administrative Service (KAS) officer and 15 others on prices of dishonest the state authorities to the tune of ₹79.29 crore by creating faux paperwork.
The case was registered towards erstwhile Nanjanagudu tahsildar, A Naveen Joseph, erstwhile land tribunal president B Krishna Murthy, Shirastedar Ramesh Babu, income inspector Shivaraj, village accountant Venkatesh and 9 faux land house owners below sections 406,409,468,471, 420, 465, 149, 120B, and part 192 of Karnataka Land Reforms Act 1964, following a grievance by present tahsildar Shivamurthy.
“All of the accused in 2010 and 2011 acquired the possession of land via land tribunal by creating faux paperwork,” Shivamurthy stated in his grievance. He stated 891 acres of land bearing Survey No. 390 to 424 in Himmavu village was within the title of Swamiji Sri Mahanta Krishnanandagiri Goswami of Tripura Bhairavi Mutt, Mysuru.
After the loss of life of Swamiji, his family moved an software earlier than the land tribunal claiming possession of the land. The then chairman of the land tribunal, H.Okay. Krishnamurthy, granted 891 acres of land to 9 individuals on September 14, 2011, violating norms, the grievance stated.
Primarily based on land tribunal orders, the 9 accused, Satyabhama, Sonu Sudheer, Bhishmapitamaha, Kuldeep Prakash, Shobalatha, Hemalatha, Nisha Verma, Anjana Sharma, and Vijaya Lakshmi, utilized for khata (possession) in tahsildar’s workplace. The then tahsildar Naveen Joseph and officers created the possession within the title of the 9 ineligible individuals even with out acquiring a household tree and loss of life certificates, mentioning land tribunal order, the grievance acknowledged.
Then the ineligible land house owners availed compensation of ₹6 crore to 11 crores amounting to ₹79.29 crore from the Karnataka Industrial space improvement board (KIADB) after the board acquired the land, the grievance added.
Following the grievance by RTI employee Okay N Nagendra, the state chief secretary ordered a probe. The auditor normal workplace additionally discovered irregularities within the subject and despatched the report back to the federal government that ₹79.29 crores loss to the exchequer.
The state authorities ordered a prison case towards all of the accused and requested the native police at hand over the case to the CID for probe on December 7.
“We’ve acquired a grievance towards all of the 16 accused and registered an FIR below varied sections of the IPC. As per process. Police registered a case and would hand over the case to the CID for probe in a few days,” Mysuru further superintendent of police Dr Nandini stated.
The police don’t have any position within the investigation as the federal government handed over the case to the CID, she added.