Moradabad ex-DM, retired ADM booked by vigilance department in land scams

Bareilly | Wednesday | 24th October, 2018

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According to vigilance officials, the then officials manipulated the land deal by purchasing land from private land dealers instead of farmers. MORADABAD: Moradabad’s former DM Zuhair Bin Sagheer and retired additional DM (city) Arun Kumar Srivastav are among eight people who have been booked in connection with two separate land scams. As a result, construction of jail has been delayed.Despite of repeated efforts, Zuhair Bin Sagheer could not be reached on his mobile phone. The then Moradabad division commissioner L Venketeshwar Loo had also ordered a departmental probe into the allegations.”The other scam involves purchase of land for the district jail at village Sirsakhera. They took over Waqf Board land in violation of rules..