Economic offenses wing files chargesheet against ex-Khandwa registrar

INDORE: The economic offenses wing (EOW) filed a chargesheet against K S Rawat, who is currently posted as senior district registrar at Morena, in the court of Justice A Srivastava, special court of anti corruption, at Khandwa on Friday. Rawat has been charged with causing loss to the state by undervaluing a 7.4 hectare plot.
The EOW chargesheet alleged that Rawat, who was the then district registrar and was posted at Khandwa, had reduced drastically the revenue stamp fee on a plot of land, measuring 7.4 hectare on fictitious ground.The state lost about Rs 32 lakh as a result of this.
When the matter was brought up before him by his sub-registrar, who had evaluated the stamp fee for the property he allegedly overruled it. The case dates back to the year 2007.
Giving further details about the case, Manoj Singh, SP, EOW, told ToI that when the matter was again brought up before of the inspector general, registration, Bhopal for appeal, he investigated the matter and found the evaluation done by Rawat as wrong.
Henceforth, a case was filed by EOW in this connection against Rawat in 2010. Then we wrote to the state government if we were permitted to start prosecution against the official and we got the approval for the same some three-four months back, added Singh.