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Defence Housing Society Lands In The Soup
Posted by Pradeep Sadanapalli | October 29, 2007 | 626 views
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Loading ...The Vigilance and Enforcement wing has unearthed several irregularities in the allotment of plots in the Defence Cooperative Housing Society (DCHS) at Sainikpuri.
The V&E wing, which probed several allegations and submitted a report to the government in the first week of October, said DCHS secretary P Veera Raju ‘fraudulently’ sold plot number 706 to one V Krishna Rao.
The probe also found violation of by-laws of the society and directions of the Registrar of Cooperative Society by the secretary and managing committee. The report said the secretary also “misrepresented facts and committed fraud” and got a sale deed executed by an illiterate woman, Balamani, owner of the plot no 775/A, in favour of one V Vijayalakshmi.
The wing asked the principal secretary (Cooperation) to initiate criminal proceedings against Veera Raju and other managing committee members and resume plots from ineligible beneficiaries. It also recommended an inquiry into irregularities in admission of members, transfer of membership, allotment and registration of plots at Sainikpuri.
The housing society has been embroiled in controversies for the past decade.
“Though there were several allegations in the past and cases are pending, fresh violations and irregularities are being perpetuated by the society,’’ Vigilance rural superintendent of police J Prabhakar Rao told ‘TOI’.
The society was registered in 1962. The state government allotted about 112.03 acres in survey no 218/1 of Malkajgiri village to the society on a nominal market value of Rs 200 per acre. The layout was approved by the Director of Town and Country Planning in 1965 with 660 plots, each of 350 square yards, after allowing for open spaces.
The layout was revised by Malkajgiri gram panchayat and plots were increased to 982 plots. Subsequently, another executive officer of the gram panchayat released another revised layout in 1979 creating 47 more plots. “Several irregularities were found in the housing society membership and allotment,” the vigilance report added. The Ranga Reddy district cooperative officer lodged a complaint against the society with the CID, which has completed its probe and case is pending in the VI Metropolitan Magistrate, Nampally since 2003. Before that, the divisional cooperative officer, Hyderabad East, conducted another probe into violation of by-laws in admission of members and allotment of plots and nailed several persons for the misdeeds.
SOURCES:
Times Of India
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