PRESIDENT'S KIN USURPED LAND, SAYS COURT
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Vaibhav Ganjapure & Vaidehi More, TNN
The Times of India
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Nagpur - A local court in Maharashtra has upheld a farmer's plea that
India's first family had fraudulently usurped a little more than one
hectare of his farmland. Surprisingly, the order was made last
December 7 but never made public since the order wasn't given to
either party until Tuesday.
In the order, the court of Daryapur subdivisional officer Ashok
Amankar directed striking off the names of President Pratibha Patil
Shekhawat's family from the records and upheld Kishor Bansod's claim
that the transfer of ownership was done using fraudulent means.
The SDO, while partly allowing an appeal filed by the aggrieved
farmer, cancelled a mutation entry of October 5, 2007, which named,
apart from the president's husband Devisingh Shekhawat, family
members Siddheshwar, Raghusingh, Bhawarsingh, Kishorsingh and Omsingh
Shekhawat.
Devisingh told TOI on Wednesday the allegation was baseless and
nothing but a publicity gimmick by the appellant. "The total land of
1.02 hectare was jointly held by Bansod and Siddheshwar Shekhawat and
five others," he said.
Devisingh clarified that the court has only partially allowed the
appeal while directing revenue officials to measure the land afresh
and restore ownership to the original joint owners. Devisingh claimed
that Bansod had been illegally cultivating on their piece of land and
since he was also working as part-time journalist, was seeking undue
publicity. "It might be an error committed by the officials who
measured it. I have only one acre of land in my name which I would
have donated to any of my family members," he said.
Congress party also rushed to his defence, saying it would be
premature to judge him guilty. "It would be wrong to jump to
conclusions on the basis of one-sided facts," said party spokesman
Abhishek Singhvi.
The SDO also directed superintendent of town planning in Daryapur in
Amravati district to measure the disputed tract and asked the
Shekhawat family to bear the cost of the exercise.
According to the appellant's counsel Sunil Gajbhiye, Shekhwat
family's land was adjacent Bansod's land measuring 1.02 hectares in
Chandrapur Khallar village and Shekhawat's wanted Bansod to sell it
to them.
Later, revenue officials got the ownership entry in the name of
Shekawat family members and it was made official on October 5, 2007
without informing the appellant, Bansod alleged.
Bansod filed an application under Section 247 of Maharashtra Land
Ownership Act 1966 before Daryapur SDO's court, demanding immediate
stay on the alleged illegal transfer of his land by the Shekhawat
family. He contended that after his refusal to sell his land,
Shekhawat family members connived with local officials and
transferred his land in their names on the key documents.
Only a small bit was left with Bansod as per records.
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