SIT to submit report on Vizag land scam by this weekend
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The Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted to probe into the alleged land scams in Visakhapatnam district has accomplished its investigation and is all set to submit report to the State authorities by this weekend.
It learnt that the SIT has named 25 to 30 outstanding individuals, together with a couple of serving bureaucrats, senior authorities officers, former bureaucrats and some individuals of reputation within the metropolis, who’ve been concerned within the alleged land scams.
The involvement of political leaders is but to be ascertained as their direct participation within the irregularities has not been established, sources stated.
Recommendations
In comparability to the report submitted by the SIT that was constituted by the then TDP authorities, this SIT has not solely recognized the lapses but additionally named the individuals accountable and their position within the scam. The SIT has additionally beneficial measures to the federal government to forestall land irregularities sooner or later.
The SIT that started work in October 2019 initially comprised three members—former IAS officers Vijay Kumar and Y.V. Anuradha and retired district and classes choose T. Bhaskara Rao.
Later, the variety of member was elevated to six by including former bureaucrat K. Durganand Prasad Rao from Chhattisgarh, former Visakhapatnam Commissioner of Police Rajeev Kumar Meena and former Chief Conservator of Forest (Visakhapatnam) Rahul Pandey.
The SIT probed into six classes of lapses comparable to change of classification, tampering with information, encroachment of presidency land, grabbing of presidency land, allotment of presidency land to personal people and organisations, and NoC issued to political victims and freedom fighters.
1,400 representations
In complete, the SIT obtained round 1,400 representations of which shut to 400 had been cleared with observations. The SIT remains to be to obtain clarifications over their observations over many instances which have been despatched to the officers and departments involved.
The SIT has additionally despatched its observations to the authorities involved for motion to be taken towards the erring officers.
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