HYDERABAD: In one of the first instances of
Dharani portal
being misused, a woman transferred land on her daughter’s name a year after she had sold the same piece of land to another person in
Pedda Adisharlapalli mandal
in
Nalgonda district
.
Nalgonda SP AV Ranganath on Friday said a
cheating case
was filed against Vijayalaxmi and
arrested
. After Vijayalaxmi sold the land of one acre 32 guntas on August 14, 2019, Kotla Jagadeesh, who purchased it, made plots and sold them. However, much to his shock when he was checking the
Dharani portal, he saw the land being in the name of Vijayalaxmi’s daughter Priyanka. Vijayalaxmi got the
land transferred
on to her daughter’s name on November 4 on the Dharani portal and got the
related documents
from the officials concerned.
When Jagadeesh approached tahsildar Devadas, he was told that the land was still in Vijayalaxmi’s name and that they could only go by the official records. After the land had been sold to Jagadeesh, the mutation process had not taken place to get the land in his name in the land records. Collector Prashant Patil and Ranganath warned people against indulging in frauds as the purpose of Dharani portal itself was to show clear records of land ownership.
In a related issue about land conversion pertaining to same piece of land a few years ago, a former VRO MD Niranjan and a girdavar (revenue staff) Ramanjaneyulu involved in wrong-doing were suspended by collector. Article of charges have also been framed against then tahsildar of Pedda Adisharlapalli mandal Mohammed Samad and sent to the
CCLA
for further action to be taken against the retired official.
Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyde...
Read MoreSushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.
Read Less