Manesar land sold with govt office seal after SC verdict

GURUGRAM: Less than two months after the Supreme Court gave its verdict in the Manesar land scam, it has emerged that a portion of the 400 acre land, whose possession the Supreme Court vested with HSIIDC, has been offered off by private people thru 20 different registries made on the Manesar tehsil workplace.
The land deals have been struck from March 14 onwards, two days after the SC gave its verdict, and came about with the data of the tehsildar, naib tehsildars, registry clerk and two computer operators. "We've suspended the registry clerk with immediate effect. The computer operator was removed. An inquiry is currently under way to assess the extent of involvement of the tehsildar and naib tehsildars. Once the report is submitted to the deputy commissioner, due action will be taken against those liable," said Sanjiv Singhla, sub-divisional Justice of the Peace, Gurugram.

According to assets, whilst one of the crucial deals incorporated alternate of land possession inside of a circle of relatives, others involved third party transactions. Interestingly, even the mutations for those land parcels have been executed by the tehsil workplace in the identify in their latest patrons.

Officials in the know said even though they have been nonetheless assessing the level of land offered off, they have been certain that thus far, no less than 25 registrations were made by different landowners. Sources then again said no less than four acres of land has been offered in more than one deals, in this two-and-a-half month length.


The land parcels under query fall inside of 3 villages, Manesar, Nakdaula and Naurangpur. Singhla said it has come to their realize that many such deals had came about even earlier than the March 12 Supreme Court verdict, even as the land was sub-judice. However as of now, their inquiry is specific to land transactions executed after the court verdict.


TOI had earlier reported that the Manesar land deals came about in 2004, when the Congress govt led by BS Hooda had withdrawn a notification for acquisition of 688 acres, after issuing it. In the meantime, the possibility of acquisition precipitated distress gross sales by landowners to non-public builders, in the belief that those deals would fetch them a better value. By the time the state rescinded the notification, the builders had managed to buy 400 acre for Rs 100 crore, versus the market value of Rs 1,600 crore.


In March this 12 months, the Supreme Court reversed determination to scrap the acquisition, and ruled that possession of the land now rested with the state business frame HSIIDC and concrete construction authority Huda.


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