Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 19: Nowabad police have summoned revenue officers for questioning after they unearthed a fake Housing and Cooperative Society, which had duped the people of Ladakh to the tune of over Rs 50 lakhs by selling them Government land at Jagti in Nagrota. Sources said that after going through documents seized from the office of the Society at Talab Tillo, the police came to know that the land was sold with the active connivance of the revenue officers, though their names were not revealed, but sources said that raids at the residences of some revenue officers has been conducted till late hours. Pertinently police conducted the raid at the office of the society named as 'Welcome Housing and Building Cooperative Limited' which was being run from Vishal Nagar, Talab Tillo by a woman named as Prem Lata wife of Tejinder Arora, a resident of Vishal Nagar. She was absconding. At the time of raids, police could arrest only one office bearer of the Society Manik Malhotra, a resident of Priyadarshani Nagar, Talab Tillo, who posed to be Secretary of the Society. Other absconding members of the Society, who were absconding, included Tajinder Arora of Vishal Nagar, Talab Tillo, Dhani Ram of Kabir Colony, Talab Tillo and Lalit Salathia of Nagrota. Police said the fake Cooperative Society office bearers had been cheating innocent Ladakhis by selling them Government land in connivance with the then Tehsildar and Patwari of the area. They had collected Rs 50 lakh from Ladakhis for the Government land. Nowabad police have registered a case against the accused. |
