In a significant anti-encroachment motion, the Sambhal district administration in Uttar Pradesh has reclaimed 38 bighas of gram sabha land valued at roughly ₹101 crore in Takht Gusai on Moradabad Highway and restored it to the village group following an order from the deputy director of consolidation court docket. The land had allegedly remained below personal occupation for practically six a long time.
Confirming it, Sambhal DM Ankit Khandelwal mentioned the administration has erected official signboards there. Notices will now be issued to people commercially occupying components of the property, directing them to vacate the land.
The motion adopted a web site inspection performed on Sunday by DM Khandelwal and SP Krishan Kumar Bishnoi, who instructed officers to make sure instant elimination of encroachments. The administration had obtained complaints alleging that authorities land in Takht Gusai, below Sambhal tehsil, had been below the possession of Saeedul Rahman and his authorized heirs for a number of a long time.
Taking instant cognisance of the criticism, the DM directed officers to file a restoration enchantment earlier than the deputy director of consolidation court docket. The enchantment was filed on June 3 and after conducting day-to-day hearings, the court docket delivered its verdict on June 27, ordering that the land be recorded within the identify of the gram sabha.
Based on the district administration, a authorities gazette notification dated August 11, 1954, had declared Mauza Takht Gusai a non-inhabited space. Though its administration was entrusted to the Sambhal Nagar Palika Parishad, the land lay exterior the municipal limits.
Saeedul Rahman claimed that the then municipality chairman had granted him a lease for the land in 1967. Nevertheless, the administration discovered that below the Municipalities Act, 1916, municipal property can’t be transferred with out prior approval from the state authorities, and no such approval was obtainable on this case. Moreover, the Act permits leases for a most interval of 1 yr. Consequently, the alleged lease deed dated July 12, 1967, was declared legally invalid.
The DM mentioned a writ petition titled Municipal Council Sambhal vs Saeedul Rahman Khan has been pending earlier than the Allahabad excessive court docket since 2008. He mentioned the then govt officer, Raj Kumar Gupta, withdrew the petition on September 4, 2013, regardless of missing the authority to take action.
The present govt officer has since filed a restoration software earlier than the excessive court docket, which stays pending. Throughout consolidation proceedings, Saeedul Rahman sought mutation of the land on the idea of the alleged 1967 lease. Nevertheless, the Municipal Board reported that no lease had ever been issued in his favour.
The district administration mentioned no proof of the purported lease existed in municipal data, main authorities to conclude that it was primarily based on solid and fabricated paperwork.
Present deputy director, consolidation, Om Prakash Anjor issued notices to all involved events and performed hearings. Whereas Saeedul Rahman’s authorized heirs didn’t seem earlier than the court docket, purchasers of the land got a chance to current their case.
The court docket concluded that earlier orders had been obtained by concealing materials information and thru fraudulent representations.
The district administration has recognized the roles of the then deputy director, consolidation, the then govt officer, former map official Shahabuddin and present authorities consultant Majid Khan as suspicious. The DM mentioned motion could be initiated towards these discovered accountable.
“The reclaimed land will now be entered into authorities data. Motion shall be taken towards officers whose function within the alleged unlawful lease is discovered to be questionable. These utilizing components of the land for business functions shall be directed to vacate the property,” DM Khandelwal mentioned.
