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Vizag police unearth Rs 3,900 cr land scam
The city police made a sensational breakthrough by arresting inspector surveyor of rural tahsildar office GL Ganeswar Rao at Hyderabad, who was in the process of alienating 390 acres of government land worth Rs 3,900 crore in the open market. He has been absconding since last one-and-half months.
Visakhapatnam: The city police made a sensational breakthrough by arresting inspector surveyor of rural tahsildar office GL Ganeswar Rao at Hyderabad, who was in the process of alienating 390 acres of government land worth Rs 3,900 crore in the open market. He has been absconding since last one-and-half months.
Inspector surveyor Ganeswar Rao along with former tahsildar M Sankar Rao tried to alienate 390 acres of government land
Ganeswar Rao is the second accused in the case filed at Arilova police station on July 2 on complaint lodged by tahsildar S Bhaskar Reddy. But most of the tampering of documents, cheating and forgery was committed by him. The main accused is former tahsildar M Sankar Rao, who was arrested last month and presently under the judicial remand.
Citing one case for which Ganeswara Rao was arrested, commissioner of police T Yoganand on Monday said both Sankar Rao and Ganeswara Rao in connivance with other private individuals tampered IB registers of Pardesipalem village, incorporated names of details of unauthorised persons to an extent of 55.35 acres of government land, which is worth Rs 550 crore in the market. For this deal Ganeswara Rao gave a Maruti Swift car and registered a flat worth Rs 1 crore to his boss Sankar Rao. Sankar Rao used the car and hired it to the tahsildar office and collected monthly charges.
After the arrest of Ganeswara Rao, the police found 145 pattadar passbooks (90 empty and 55 filled), records pertaining to 27 persons, whose names were incorporated in IB registers, old trust deed of MANSAS Trust, D form pattas, survey and settlement register, 59 empty pattas, 40 title deeds, 30 empty house allotment pattas and an album containing signatures of revenue officials who worked in the district earlier, their tenure and other important documents.
All the documents were found in the house of G Srinivasa Rao, driver of Ganeswara Rao, who lives in Aganampudi. In addition to Pardesipalem village, Ganeswara Rao also tried to alienate more than 300 acres of land in Madhuravada, Anandapuram and Bhimili.
The commissioner said Ganeswara Rao was arrested by ACB for disproportionate assets in 2009 and the case is still going on. He managed to get the plum posting and the police will inquire who helped him. He said 30 out of the 55 persons were identified whose names were incorporated in the revenue records by Ganeswara Rao.
Detailing modus operandi of the arrested surveyor, the commissioner said after entering the names in the IB register, Rao was making a sale agreement with persons related or close to him. Later he would go to the sub-registrar’s office for registration. If the sub-registrar refused, he was going to high court to get orders in his favour.
“We do not know how much wealth he had accumulated so far and who are the others behind his operation. After he is remanded by the ACB court, the police would seek their custody and use all technology to extract truth from him, he added.
