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In what was expected to beryllium an enquiry into the ownership of authorities land, a Revenue Officer entrusted with examining the quality allegedly became portion of the precise concatenation of events that enabled backstage parties to unafraid authorities onshore valued astatine much than ₹800 crore.
The Police Wing of the Karnataka Lokayukta said the officer’s work was to verify the legality of competing claims and support authorities spot wherever required. Instead, helium allegedly relied connected disputed gross records and actions that strengthened backstage claims implicit the land, yet facilitating its conversion into saleable property.
The lawsuit involves much than 35 acres of authorities Kharab onshore and water country successful Yelahanka, wherever a gross inspector and 4 different officers allegedly enabled the transportation of nationalist onshore into backstage hands done a bid of administrative actions and grounds alterations.
Pending since 2021
Although the Police Wing sought sanctions for prosecution successful 2021 done a connection sent to the State authorities nether Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act, the authorities has neither approved nor rejected the request. The connection has remained pending for much than 5 years.
How authorities onshore became private
The lawsuit concerns 35 acres dispersed crossed Survey Nos. 9, 10 and 11 of Singhahalli colony successful Yelahanka Hobli. The onshore was primitively portion of Singhahalli Lake and classified arsenic Kharab land, making it ineligible for backstage ownership.
Over the years, RTCs (Record of Rights, Tenancy, and Crops), mutation entries, Index of Land Records Register (ILRR) records and survey sketches were created successful the names of backstage individuals and subsequently treated arsenic genuine gross documents. Once these entries became portion of the authoritative gross system, they formed the ground for ownership of claims implicit onshore primitively recorded arsenic authorities property.
The claims gained momentum erstwhile the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) initiated acquisition proceedings successful the area. Private individuals asserted ownership implicit portions of the onshore and challenged the acquisition earlier the Karnataka High Court. According to the proposal, the disputed gross records continued to beryllium relied upon during these proceedings, allowing the ownership claims to persist and summation administrative legitimacy.
When gross authorities revisited the substance successful 2024, they encountered a wide contradiction: archetypal survey and archival records continued to picture the onshore arsenic water and authorities property, portion aboriginal gross entries reflected backstage possession and ownership. The connection argues that, alternatively of resolving this contradiction done verification of superior records, officials relied connected the aboriginal entries and proceeded with further administrative actions that strengthened the backstage claims.
The insubstantial way yet translated into carnal transactions. In 2024, aggregate merchantability deeds were executed done the Byatarayanapura Sub-Registrar’s Office, with portions of the onshore changing hands betwixt backstage parties, sources said.
