Manesar land scam: Tehsildar suspended
Gurugram, June 6: Meetu Dhankar, Tehsildar of Manesar Sub-Division, and her two juniors have been suspended for their alleged involvement in selling government plots to private individuals through nearly two dozen different registries, an official said on Wednesday.
Sanjiv Singhla, Gurugram sub-divisional magistrate (north), said Dhankar and registry clerk Ashok Kumar have been suspended while services of computer operator Shishu Pal has been terminated.
Naib Tehsildar Ishwar Singh, revenue officials Satbir Singh and Gulab Singh along with one other official at Manesar have been facing departmental inquiry, said District Revenue officer Hariom Atri.
The land deals were struck from March 14 this year onwards, two days after the Supreme Court reversed the Haryana government's decision to scrap the acquisition and ruled that ownership of the land now rested with the state industry body HSIIDC and urban development authority Huda.
According to an inquiry by Singla, while some of the deals included change of land ownership within a family, others involved third party transactions.
Officials in the know said even though they were still assessing the extent of land sold off, they were sure that so far, at least 25 registrations (at least four acres of land) have been made by different landowners in the two-and-a-half month period.
Singhla said many such deals happened before the March 12 verdict, even as the land was sub-judice. However, the inquiry is restricted to land transactions after the verdict.
During 2004-2007, land with market value above Rs 4 crore per acre, totalling about Rs 1,600 crore, was allegedly purchased by private builders from the land owners in only about Rs 100 crore.
The land parcels fall within three villages, Manesar, Nakhdaula and Naurangpur. When farmers from these villages approached the Supreme Court, it ordered status quo in the favour of farmers on April 24, 2015.
An FIR was then registered against unknown political leaders, builders and their agents under various sections of Indian Penal Code on August 12.
The CBI registered a case on September 15 against Haryana's former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and 32 others and started investigation.
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Guarantees: Siddaramaiah accuses Maharashtra BJP of 'spreading lies,' warns of legal action
Mumbai/Bengaluru, Nov 16: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said he was considering taking legal action against the BJP’s Maharashtra unit alleging it 'spread lies' about the five guarantees implemented by his government.
Addressing a press conference in Mangalwedha in Maharashtra, Siddaramaiah said: “They (BJP) have given a false advertisement in order to mislead the people of Maharashtra." Furthermore, he said he was considering filing a suit against the Maharashtra BJP for spreading lies about the guarantee schemes and its implementation. The Chief Minister said all the five guarantees have been effectively implemented in Karnataka benefiting crores of people.
The CM, his deputy D K Shivakumar and a host of Karnataka ministers, who are campaigning in Maharashtra for elections are reaching out to the people on the five guarantees being implemented in their state.
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These five guarantees are 'Gruha Jyoti' offering up 200 units of free electricity for household connection, 'Gruha Lakshmi' providing Rs 2,000 to the women heads of BPL families, 'Shakti' fare-free bus travel scheme for women, 'Yuva Nidhi' offering Rs 3,000 and Rs 1,500 to unemployed graduates and diploma holders respectively and 'Anna Bhagya' food security scheme for BPL families.
Siddaramaiah asked the Maharashtra leaders to visit Karnataka and see for themselves if the guarantees have been implemented or not.
Attacking the BJP-led Centre for ‘injustice’ to states in the devolution of taxes, the Chief Minister said Karnataka every year pays more than Rs 4.5 lakh crore as central tax and in return gets only Rs 60,000 crore.
"According to my information, Maharashtra is paying Rs 8.78 lakh crore, whereas the Maharashtra government is getting Rs 1.30 lakh crore. That means the Government of India is causing injustice to Karnataka and Maharashtra though Maharashtra is number one and Karnataka is number two in the country in tax collection," the Chief Minister said.
According to him, Maharashtra government was getting 15 paise for each rupee it pays, while Karnataka gets about 13 to 14 paise out of every rupee. Also, the CM said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had claimed that the five guarantee schemes could not be implemented and if at all implemented, the state governments doing so will go bankrupt. While this was the case, the BJP has ironically come up with guarantees in Jharkhand and Maharashtra.
