Charge against them to obtaining Rs 1CR compensation by entering illegal mutation of govt land
Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh -
The Vigilance Bureau has registered a criminal case against Navdeep Singh, Patwari, posted at revenue halka Kishanpura Kalan, Moga district, Dilkush Kumari, a resident of village Adraman, in Moga and Harminder Singh alias Gagan, a resident of village Rasulpur, Moga district for conniving with each other for facilitating an illegal beneficiary to avail compensation of Rs 10,065,724 by preparing false assessment reports pertaining to ownership of government land.
In this regard a FIR under section 13(1) (a) read with 13(2) of Prevention of Corruption Act and under sections 409, 465, 466, 467, 468, 471, 120-B of IPC has been registered based on a vigilance enquiry at VB Ferozepur range.
He informed that during the investigation it was found that land owned by Rehabilitation Department of Govt situated at village Adraman Moga had been wrongly transferred in the name of above said Dilkhush Kumari and entered the mutation in her name as an owner of this government land. It was also came to light that signatures on mutation of this land was put by Chhinda Patwari, but he was not posted at the concerned revenue halqa of village Redwan, in tehsil Dharmkot and he had died during the year 2021.
