VADODARA: The chairman and managing director (CMD), joint MD and two executive directors of a Mumbai-headquartered pharmaceutical firm were booked under Gujarat
Land Grabbing
(
Prohibition
) Act for allegedly encroaching upon a farmer’s land at Ranu village in Padra taluka.
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An offence was registered at Padra police station on Sunday late night after Vadodara district committee ordered Vadodara rural police to file an FIR. The company’s Premchand Godha, the CMD, Ipca Laboratories, joint MC AjitKumar Jain and EDs Prashant Godha and Pranay Godha, have been named as accused in the FIR.
The farmer Hiral Patel had approached the district administration with a complaint in December last year alleging that the company had constructed a compound wall around the land which he had purchased in May 2015. Patel said that during the hearing before the district committee, the company’s representative had shown readiness to hand over possession of the land on February 5. But hours before handover, a representative informed the deputy collector that the company is willing to do so, it is alleged.
Patel alleged that after he had purchased the land in 2015, the company had raised objection against the sale before the deputy collector, stating that they possess the land, a borewell and a part of a diesel tank on the land. But the administration had turned down the appeal and upheld the sale of land to Patel.
The complainant, after the purchase, had given an advertisement in the newspaper about the purchase of land and had even obtained a title clearance certificate.