Four out of ten accused of land grab arrested

NASHIK: Nearly a month after farmers from Odha and Sayyad Pimpri villages presented their complaints to the police regarding Gangadhar Jadhav of Vikrant Happy Homes for allegedly making a fake general power of attorney to grab their land, the Sarkarwada police have arrested four out of ten accused in the case. All the arrested have been remanded to police custody till June 13.
After studying the papers presented by farmers on the issue, the police finally moved to first registered the case against the accused and then arrested four, including Gangadhar Jadhav and his son Prashant. The others arrested are employees of Jadhav's firm. Vikrant Happy Homes,
A notary, Bhaskar Jadhav, one of the accused, was not arrested, the sources said.
Sachin Rikame, one of the affected farmers, said that in 2008, the farmers learnt that Vikrant Happy Homes had taken non-agricultural permission for two pieces of lands admeasuring 14,15,100 sq m and Rs 3,28,849 sq m in survey numbers 138, 145, 146 in Odha and Sayyad Pimpri villages in 1995. A right to information plea reply revealed that Jadhav had got the power of attorney done in the names of landholders who had died before 1994, farmer Rajaram Dhikale said.
Cops said that of the ten, two were prime accused who had allegedly grabbed the land, while all others except the notary were employees of Vikrant Happy Homes. Also, the notary has not yet been arrested, they added.