MUMBAI: The Mumbai Crime Department on Monday arrested a deputy superintendent of land information in reference to the alleged manipulation of paperwork for plots in ecologically delicate coastal regulation zones (CRZ) and no improvement zones (NDZ) in Madh space at Malad (West). The accused, Meena Pandre, 50, was arrested for manipulating paperwork she was in-charge of throughout her tenure between 2011 to 2014 within the Bandra workplace of Land Report division.
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The rip-off was unearthed by Vaibhav Thakur, a farmer who lives in Erangal village in Malad, and owns ancestral farmland. He filed a criticism first with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company, after which with the Goregaon police, after noticing unlawful building happening on his land and the adjoining land. His criticism said that authorities officers, property brokers, and contractors got here collectively to forge paperwork which categorized plots beneath CRZ and NDZ for improvement goal.
In October 2024, Thakur filed a petition within the Bombay excessive court docket, which directed a Particular Investigation Staff (SIT) to be shaped within the Crime Department to research this case, following which a complete of 4 FIRs had been registered. One was registered in 2020 and two had been registered in 2021 with the Goregaon police and are being investigated by Unit 7, Unit 2 and property cell division.
The fourth FIR, which is at the moment being investigated by Unit 8, was registered in Kherwadi police station in December 2021 after Nitin Salunkhe, a deputy superintendent of land information Mumbai suburban discovered that maps and paperwork had been solid to permit unlawful building on lands beneath eco-sensitive zones. Pandre was the fourth arrest on this case.
An officer who’s a part of the investigating workforce stated Pandre was posted in Bandra workplace of Land Report division, Mumbai suburban district from 2011 to 2014 because the deputy superintendent, and the manipulation of paperwork came about between 2011 to 2019, together with throughout her tenure. Final week, Jaywant Gangurde, a clerk from the identical division, who was additionally posted throughout the identical tenure, was arrested. The police had additionally arrested two actual property brokers, recognized as Inam Ok and Narasimha, in connection to this case earlier this yr. Pandre was produced within the court docket and despatched into judicial custody.
The information of land surveying maps and survey information together with distribution of copies had been saved preserved within the Bandra workplace. The workplace has a complete 884 boundary everlasting measurement maps from 1955 to 1984, and people maps are saved within the cabinet of the document room the place a employees member is appointed. If anybody calls for for paperwork by means of RTI, the workplace supplies them after paying authorities charges.