Action against 3 revenue officials for illegality in land deals

CHANDIGARH: Haryana government has detected irregularities in the registration of land deals in Sirsa district where the revenue officials executed the deals even in those cases in which mandatory no objection certificate from the town and country planning department was not obtained.
The government has initiated departmental action against three officials, including tehsildar Sanjay Bishnoi and naib tehsildar Ram Niwas, after receiving an inquiry report from Sirsa sub-divisional magistrate Paramjit Singh Chahal.The government has also ordered to transfer both officials from the district.
Sources believe that if the scope of the inquiry was enlarged then the government might find such irregularities in other parts of the state also. "There may be a nexus between colonizers and revenue officials behind execution of such deals in the state which can be exposed only after an in-depth probe," said sources.
To curb on the growth of illegal colonies, the government had made it mandatory to take an NOC from the town and country planning department before getting the plots registered. Additional chief secretary (revenue) Dalip Singh told the TOI that the government had received a complaint that the plots were being registered by the revenue officials even in those cases where the NOC was not obtained from the town planner in Sirsa.
After getting orders for a probe, the investigators quickly examined registration documents of 56 land deals in Sirsa and found that 34 of them were registered without having NOC from the town planner. On the basis of the inquiry report, the government suspended registration clerk Phool Singh apart from ordering disciplinary proceedings against the tehsildar and naib tehsildar for major penalty under Rule 7 of the Haryana Civil Services Rules.