15 held in Bhu Bharati and Dharani land registration scam in Telangana

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Fifteen radical were arrested for allegedly causing a nonaccomplishment of ₹3.9 crore to authorities done alleged irregularities successful onshore registrations connected 'Dharani' and 'Bhu Bharati' portals successful Jangaon and Yadadri Bhuvanagiri districts of Telangana, Jangaon constabulary said connected Friday (January 16, 2026). Another 9 accused are presently absconding, helium said.

Another 9 accused are presently absconding, helium said.

The accused committed fraud successful transactions related to 1,080 documents crossed Jangaon and Yadadri districts. A full of 22 cases person been registered — 7 cases successful Jangaon territory and 15 cases successful Yadadri district, the Warangal Police Commissioner Sunpreet Singh said.

The Police seized ₹63.19 lakh successful cash, ₹1 lakh deposited successful slope accounts, spot documents worthy astir ₹1 crore, 1 car, 2 laptops, 5 desktop computers, and 17 mobile phones from the accused, an authoritative merchandise said.

Two premier accused, who are moving online work centres, on with different accused, collected wealth from farmers and allegedly manipulated the outgo challans procreation process to trim the challan amount.

The accused collected wealth from farmers done Mee Seva operators by claiming that the payments would beryllium made done an NRI account. From the collected amounts, commissions were paid to online work operators and middlemen, portion the remaining magnitude was sent to the premier accused, constabulary said.

"The premier accused utilized the “Inspect – Edit Application” enactment connected the Dharani/Bhu Bharati websites to trim the challan magnitude and the edited challans were sent backmost to farmers done mobile phones", constabulary said.

Similarly, by utilizing mobile applications, the accused altered the government-issued receipts connected the website, showing lesser amounts than really payable. "They paid lone the reduced magnitude to the authorities and submitted the fake challans done middlemen astatine section MRO and registration offices, thereby cheating the authorities and causing dense gross loss," the constabulary said.

The Congress authorities launched the 'Bhu Bharati' portal for onshore medication by replacing the 'Dharani' onshore records absorption strategy introduced during the erstwhile BRS regime.

Published - January 17, 2026 12:24 p.m. IST

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