Irregularities to the fore in sale deeds’ registration in Jagadhri

Shiv Kumar Sharma

Yamunanagar, June 3

In an example of gross irregularities in the sale deed registration of Yamunanagar and Jagadhri, hundreds of registries have been done in unauthorised colonies at Jagadhri tehsil.

Finding the issue highly sensitive, Yamunanagar Deputy Commissioner (DC) SS Phulia has written to higher authorities, including the Ambala Divisional Commissioner, and the Additional Chief Secretary, Revenue and Disaster Management, for a vigilance probe, which might surface as one of the biggest scams in the state in the recent times.

The role of the Jagadhri tehsildar and naib tehsildar has come under the scanner in the matter.

Sources said the irregularities came to light when the DC asked the Yamunanagar stamp auditor last month to provide information regarding the registration of sale deeds in a controlled area without an NOC in one year (since April, 2014 to March, 2015).

The stamp auditor’s report revealed that over 900 sale deeds were executed showing houses on plots in violation of government rules (without NOC) in one year.

Similarly, about 800 sales deeds of plots on which the houses were made were executed. However, the NOC was required for the registration of the said sale deeds too, as those houses were also made in unauthorised areas.

The auditor’s report further revealed that the sale deeds on large scale were also registered in authorised areas. The ‘khasra’ numbers of such plots didn’t exist in collector rates’ list.

Similarly, only numbers of NOCs were written in documents presented by sellers of the plots for the registration of sale deeds, but the papers of the NOC, in fact, were not found pasted in tehsil records.

The sources said the sale deeds had been registered violating the provisions of the Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act, 1975.

Section 7-A of the Act prohibits to develop a colony without obtaining license and the provision of Section 7 (1) of the Act prohibits sale of plots in any manner in a colony for which license under Section 3 of the Act had not been granted.

The sources said if such colonies had been developed after getting license under the Act, the government would have received crores as revenue.

“Sensing the gravity of the case and the loss caused to the government revenue, I have sent a report to the higher authorities,” said the DC.