CM's signature forged by land-grabbers

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, OCT. 6. Nothing seems to be an insurmountable task for the unscrupulous elements who grab government lands in Rangareddy district. This time some alleged land grabbers have even forged the signature of the Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, to stake claim for 240 acres of land in Khajaguda village of the Serilingampally municipality.

The Rangareddy police who swung into action on being alerted about the forgery of the CM's signature nabbed two persons allegedly responsible for the forgery. Efforts were being made to nab 20 others who were believed to be the part of the conspiracy to grab the 240 acre land.

According to an official press release issued here on Saturday, the police found two more documents purported to have been issued by Rangareddy district administration sanctioning succession and mutation in favour of Esa Bin Nazar, Ali Bin Saleh and others. The two arrested were M. Satyanarayana of Ramanthapur and Yadi Reddy of Ghatkesar.

The press release said the gangsters forged documents to stake claim for lands in survey numbers 27/1, 28, 39, 40,17, 5, 20/1, 23, 2, 7/1, 34 and 161 admeasuring 240 acres in Khajaguda village. They allegedly created documents of the proceedings of the Joint Collector of Rangareddy district vide proceedings No E1/2154/97 and E1/5372/97 dt 30-07-2001 sanctioning succession and mutation in favour of Ali Bin Saleh and others and also Esa Bin Nazar.

The second document vide Lr. No. 01/2384/99 dated 25-08-99 had a forged signature of DRO; of Rangareddy district addressed to the Additional Secretary to the Chief Minister stating that a decision had been taken to implement the court decrees. The third document created by the accused persons was the `note' by the Chief Minister to his Additional Secretary stating that `action may be taken to implement the court decree in OS No. 414/884 as it is at an early date'.

All the three documents were found to be fake on verification and following a complaint by the MRO of Serilingampally a case was registered in the Raidurgam police station and investigation taken up. The press release cautioned the public not to enter into any sale agreement without verifying from the collectorate about any land.

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