Case registered over transfer of state land

Two inquiry committees of the revenue department have reportedly found 12 persons responsible for fraudulently transferring the ownership of state land and causing a loss of about Rs9 billion to the government.

According to sources in the department, the anti-corruption department has registered a case against the suspects on the recommendation of the committees.

The source said that the inquiries led by Saddar Assistant Commissioner Umer Maqbool and Tehsildar Rana Abid Iqbal last month unearthed mutation by officials of a land record centre of 760 kanal and 15 marla of state land in chak 3JB and 237RB

According to the inquiry reports, forged documents and fake entries in the registers of the revenue record room and Naib Tehsildar office were made.

When the claimants went to the villages to take possession of the land, the local community resisted the move and raised the issue with the administration, after which the inquiry was launched. to the officials of the revenue department on the directions of the deputy commissioner of Faisalabad.

Deputy Commissioner Ali Anan Qamar said all the assistant commissioners had been directed to keep an eye on the performance of officials of the land record centre.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 20^th, 2023.