Tribal land registered using fake tax receipts

PALAKKAD: Officials of the Revenue and the Registration departments have been accused of involvement in the tribal land scam at Attappady in a report submitted by K.V. Vasudevan, Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO), Ottappalam, to District Collector K.V. Mohan Kumar here on Saturday. The report was prepared after verification of land records at Kottathara village.

Mr. Vasudevan's inquiry also found the involvement of some officials of the Attappady Hill Area Development Society (AHADS) in the fraud. They had supplied the survey map records and bought tribal land and sold it to windmill companies at huge profits, the report says.

He found that in six cases, the land was registered merely on the strength of tax receipts and without proper documents. This was possible only with the connivance of the Sub-Registrar of Agali. The RDO has recommended action against the official.

The inquiry found that the then Kottathara... [continue via Web link]