News: Amaravati land scam probe reveals web records altered-17-07-2020

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In the remand report submitted in the court, the police explained that fabricated online land records were used for wrongful transfer of lands belonging to the landless people from scheduled caste communities.

HYDERABAD: Arrest of two key accused in the Amaravati land scam has unearthed the modus operandi of how the assigned lands were sold and used for land pooling.

The Thullur police had on Wednesday arrested Anne Sudhir Babu, a retired tehsildar, and Gummadi Suresh, a real estate businessman. In the remand report submitted in the court, the police explained that fabricated online land records were used for wrongful transfer of lands belonging to the landless people from scheduled caste communities.

In Pedalanka of Rayapudi village, around 7.4 acre was surrendered to the state government under land ceiling process. Police said that one Yalamanchali Suraiah and his two sons illegally got the land assigned to SCs by getting it registered in favour of Gummadi Suresh, posing as if it was their own.

Gummadi Suresh, in turn, executed a sale deed in 2016 to Valluri Srinivasa Babu as GPA holder. For registration, the accused submitted pattadar passbook, title deed and other documents issued by the then tehsildar Anne Sudhir Babu to support their claim.

Sudhir Babu was accused him of creating false documents by making changes in revenue records in connivance with Gummadi Suresh and others. Sudhir Babu issued six different reports with different dates to CRDA, changing the classification from “assigned land” to “patta land” and then from “patta land” to “assigned land” as a cover-up operation.

The third accused Valluri Srinivasa Babu, who is yet to be arrested, offered the assigned land to CRDA for pooling to grab the benefits (returnable plots/annuity) under land pooling scheme. Police said this case is the tip of the iceberg and hundreds of acres of land have been transferred using similar methods.