Land grabber, Revenue officials booked for sale of JDA land

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Jan 21: Crime Branch Jammu has booked a land grabber and three Revenue officials, including Tehsildar, Naib Tehsildar and Patwari for fraudulent sale of JDA land at Ploura, Jammu.
A case has been registered against Sham Singh of Pamposh Colony, Janipur Jammu, Sujan Singh of Bahu Fort Jammu and the Revenue officials namely Maqbool Hussain, the then Patwari Halqa Paloura, Jammu, the then concerned Naib Tehsildar and the then concerned Tehsildar for conspiring and cheating the complainant by issuing forged Revenue extracts in the shape of ‘fardintekhab’ and ‘Aks Sajra’ for two kanals of JDA land at prime location at Paloura, Jammu.
The case was registered after preliminary investigations by the Crime Branch Jammu on the basis of a written complaint by one Col Mohan Gandotra of Suraksha Vihar Paloura Top alleging therein that his father had purchased land measuring two Kanals from Sham Singh(through his attorney holder Sujan Singh) by virtue of two sale deeds after concerned Revenue officials had issued Revenue extracts in Khasra number 670 min in favour of the accused Sham Singh.
During enquiry, it was found that concerned Revenue officers /officials had mutated the land in question in favour of father of the complainant. However, the Jammu Development Authority (JDA) claimed it as their own land and erected boundary pillars in the said land in the year 2018. It also came to fore that there was only four marlas share of the accused Sham Singh left in the said khasra and the accused through his attorney holder -Sujan Singh after hatching a criminal conspiracy with the said Revenue officials /officers, forged Revenue documents and sold two kanals of land after giving physical possession in JDA land.