These guys sold land near Soudha for Rs100 crore

A family of four are in the police net after they sold a government property measuring more than two acres located in Millers Tank Bund area.

The property, which was worth Rs100 crore, was sold using fake documents. The accused are also under the police scanner for their involvement in eight similar cases in Byappanahalli police station limits.

City police commissioner Shankar M Bidari said the police got information on December 31, 2010, that more than two acres close to the Vidhana Soudha was sold using forged documents.

The case was referred to the central crime branch’s special inquiries squad for an inquiry. The inquiry confirmed the fraud and a suo motu case was registered and investigation was taken up on January 7.

The investigation also found that four persons: V Ramaiah, 74, from Kaggadasapura, and his three sons — R Surendrababu, 42, R Ashok Kumar, 40, and R Jaipal — were involved in large-scale land grabbing.

Bidari said the four had forged the will, land grant order and other documents relating to survey number 28, old number 18 in Vasanthanagar, Bilekahalli Village (Miller Tank Bund), measuring 7,605 sq mt and sold it to Yashlakshmi Constructions Limited, Dharangutti, Kolahapur district in Maharashtra for Rs45.62 crore through a sale deed registered at Indiranagar sub-registrar’s office.

It was also found that the record of rights were not of the persons who were competent to issue them. The will has been tampered with by using a whitener and name of a woman named Eramma was inserted. Even the land conversion order was forged by using scan print process using a computer.

Bidari said that there was no land grant order and the khatha quoted by them was also fake. There was also no record regarding the grant of this land to Eramma and no amount had been credited regarding the forged grant order, he said.

The land grant amount was found to be credited to the treasury on October 24, 1965, and January 18, 1953, and both these days fell on Sundays, according to the calendar.

The CCB has already filed a chargesheet against the four accused for forgery, cheating, criminal conspiracy and grabbing of government land. The detection of the fraud has revealed that the property has an official valuation of Rs45.62 crore against the commanding market price of about Rs100 crore.

The investigation also revealed that one of the accused, Surendra Babu, had utilised part of the money he received from the transactions to contest elections to the Lok Sabha in 2009 from Bangalore North constituency on a Janata Dal (S) ticket and subsequently lost.