Inquiry ordered into another land grabbing issue by Eatala, supporters
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The State Government has ordered an inquiry into alleged land grabbing by former Minister Eatala Rajender and his supporters at the same time as an in depth probe into land grabbing prices in opposition to Mr. Rajender is underway.
The probe this time round is on massive scale encroachment and unlawful transactions of land belonging to Sree Seetha Rama Swamy temple at Devarayamjal in Shamirper mandal of Medchal-Malkajgiri district.
Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar stated within the orders issued on Monday that the Endowments division was claiming that an extent of 1,521 acres and 13 guntas belonged to the temple and a few vernacular dailies extensively reported concerning the encroachment of the temple lands by Mr. Rajender and few different people.
These people unlawfully occupied massive extents of the temple lands in their very own names in addition to in benami names. “It is reported that the value of the encroached lands is more than ₹1,000 crore and the temple has been defrauded of such high value properties,” the order stated. It had additionally been reported that giant constructions had been made on these lands with none legitimate permissions and in flagrant violation of a number of legal guidelines.
“Besides gravely hurting the sentiments of the devotees and donors, it is alleged that these actions constitute grave violations of several laws in force,” the Chief Secretary stated within the orders. It was accordingly determined to order an in depth inquiry into the issue by a committee of officers. The committee can be headed by Panchayat Raj Commissioner M. Raghunandan Rao and would comprise of collectors of Medchal-Malkajgiri (Sweta Mohanty), Mancherial (Bharati Holikere) and Nalgonda (Prasanth Jeevan Patil) as its members.
The committee ought to conduct detailed inquiry into the main points of encroachers and land encroached upon, the character of encroachment and current utilization, paperwork possessed by these encroachers and permission, if any, given by any Government physique. The committee would additionally look at violations of present authorities rules, extent of vacant land, the extent of land underneath encroachment by the benamis and influential individuals behind them and extent of income loss to the temple and advocate motion that ought to be initiated.
The Chief Secretary has requested the committee to submit its report on the earliest.
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