Bangalore Mirror: Bangalore: Friday,
September 23, 2016.
It's not just
storm water drains that have been encroached upon in the city, but a lot of
bogus khata cases are also being reported.
In one such
instance, it is alleged that around 15,000 sq ft gram thana land belonging to
the civic agency has been encroached by creating false khata documents.
The civic
officials are yet to act upon the several complaints filed with them.
It is alleged
that N Raju, a resident of Jyotinagar in Kacharakanahalli village ward No 29,
who is a head constable with Bharathinagar police station, along with 12 family
members has created bogus 'B' khatas also called B registers, land record kept
by the BBMP for collection of property tax purpose, for the land.
Not just
that, the sketch of the area prepared by the tahsildar office has also been
allegedly forged.
This came to
light after local resident P Manjesh came to know that khatas had been prepared
for the gram thana sites.
He filed an
RTI application with the HBR Layout sub-division of BBMP's revenue department
seeking the property details of L Narasima Murthy (1155 sqft), Kadireppa (860
sqft), Krishna Murthy (1018), N Raju (2080), Kumar (1254), Ashwathappa (800),
Papaiah (1518), Narasimha Murthy (1218), Manjula (1443), Lakappa (14430,
Kasappa (576), Lakappa (1351), Muniraju (1462), a total of 15,391 sqft land.
Speaking to
Bangalore Mirror Manjesh said: "One of Raju's relatives informed me that
they have registered several properties with the Ganganagar sub-registrar. I
obtained several documents under RTI act and in which there were several B
Khatas. Our area falls under the east zone of BBMP but on the khatas, the name
west zone was printed. Then, I asked the revenue officer to provide certified
documents of the khatas but the office informed me that they have not issued
any such thing. Similarly, I filed an RTI with the tahsildar's office seeking
the area sketch, but they said that they haven't issued such a thing."
Interestingly,
the assistant revenue officer, on February 11, 2016, replied that his office
had not issued any B khatas to the above mentioned properties. On June 27, 2016
the north Tahsildar also replied that his office did not issue any sketch of
the area.
No action
Meanwhile,
Manjesh alleged that since it was revealed that the government documents were
forged he filed around four complaints, but none of them had got a reply. On
September 16, another complaint was filed with the HBR layout assistant revenue
officer for action to be initiated.
Narayan,
assistant revenue officer (HBR Layout) confirmed that his office has not issued
any B khatas and it doesn't have any entries for the same. "My office has
received several complaints about this and after obtaining permission from
senior officers, I will file a complaint with BMTF cops," he added.
'I have not
doneanything wrong' Head constable Raju, however, said that the properties have
been under their family's possessionsince 1947.
"If the
documents are forged, then the complainant has to justify it. But the
complainant Manjesh himself has buried a government well in the area and
constructed a house on it. I had asked him about the same, and may be to take
revenge he is filing the complaints against us," he said.
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