Occupied government land, three arrested

Ambikapur. In Ambikapur, three people have been arrested for fraudulently privatizing government land and selling it after harvesting paddy. There is an allegation on these accused of cultivating the government land including privatizing it in a fraudulent manner. Along with this, these accused have also sold the government land. In this case, at present the influential main accused Batauli is out of the custody of the police.

In Bhatko, Kardana, Kalipur villages of Batauli of Sitapur Vidhansabha, a case has come to the fore of fraudulently transferring government land in its own name. After the investigation of this matter, names of 21 people including former personal secretary of Food Minister Amarjit Bhagat, Bhupendra Yadav, BJP leader Amit Gupta, Block Congress President Pradeep Gupta, Patwari, Kanungo, contractor Jayes Gupta have come to the fore.

Batauli police station in-charge Fardinand Kujur told that Shubhak and Sunder Ghasia, after occupying the government land, have registered it as a private item and sold it. While Jagmohan Yadav has cultivated paddy on the government land after registering it as a private item.