Summary:
Innocent land owners were allegedly fleeced in fraudulent deals, wherein the government collected nearly Rs 50 lakh as registration fee.The land owners issued mutation extracts for the non-existent land demanded a probe into the scam by the revenue department officials. The land owners stressed that the sub-divisional officer (SDO) should order a departmental inquiry against the revenue officials in office between 2012 and 2014, and check for their involvement in the land scam and fraudulent mutation entries.“We submitted 10 written complaints to the revenue department. He said a new tehsildar had come, but the report was yet to be table.An FIR has been registered against the developer. But police are waiting for the tehsildar’s report, pending for the past eight months, for further action. PUNE: Four persons from Bhukum village in Mulshi taluka staged a three-day hunger strike in front of the district collectorate demanding a detailed probe into an alleged land scam worth over Rs 1.16 crore in their area.They alleged that a builder had sold 29 gunthas of land that did not exist on paper to different people between 2012 and 2014..