After Moti Goel's infamous land scams in Ghaziabad and Greater Noida, another major land scam has come to light in Surajpur town. A land mafia, in connivance with the revenue department officials, has usurped 750 bighas of land belonging to Gram Samaj and Pokhar land--land under a pond--near district headquarters.
The market value of this land is estimated to be over Rs 1,000 crore. The district magistrate, Gautam Budh Nagar, Sharwan Kumar Sharma has ordered a probe into the scam.
According to available information, Gram Samaj's land in the town was registered under Khasra No. 1 to 9 and again Khasra Nos 16, 19, 98, 100, 178, 179, 121, 142, etc. But the land mafia is reported to have got this land transferred in its own name with the connivance of revenue department officials.
The fraud was committed through a sleek operation and with such finesse that scamsters could not be caught in a probe even. Then the tricksters took out the old Khatauni and pasted an order on its page. This order was shown to have been issued on August 14, 1967, March 4, 1968 and May 22, 1968.
Besides about 30 bigha land registered under Pokhar land vide Khasra No. 184, 181, 246, 251 and 253 was shown in the name of half a dozen persons by making fictitious entries under 1362 crops. This land is adjoining the district headquarters. Therefore, its current market value runs into crores of rupees. An important fact in this connection is that the apex court has issued orders to get the Pokhar land vacated.
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