FIR registered against former Muda clerk in cheating case

Mysuru: Police finally registered an FIR against a former Mysuru Urban Development Authority (Muda) clerk in connection with a case of cheating related to a Muda site.
Jurisdiction police filed the FIR following the intervention of city police chief B Dayananda. Muda commissioner M Mahesh had written to him last week about the non-registration of complaint by Lakshmipuram police.TOI reported mid-April that police and Muda officials were at loggerheads over the case.
Mahesh confirmed that police registered the complaint after a month. Muda tahsildhar PC Mohan first visited the police station with the complaint on April 6 and then again on April 26 but the complaint wasn't registered. Later, the MUDA chief wrote to the police commissioner on April 27 seeking his intervention.
Earlier, police said Muda officers hadn't provided supporting documents along with the complaint. Muda officers claimed the purpose of filing a complaint is to find how its former employee BS Ramaswamy managed to create fake site records by destroying the genuine ones.
Ramaswamy created fake documents of a non-existent site and was trying to usurp valuable property in a prime location. He was originally allotted site No. 3029 (60ft x 40ft) in Dattagalli III Stage in 1994. Though it was an intermediate site, Ramaswamy wrote a letter to Muda in 2002, requesting for an alternative site, claiming that site No. 3029 was a corner site. Corner sites are allotted only through auctions.
Though Muda didn't respond to it, Ramaswamy created forged documents of a non-existent site, and effaced original documents of site No. 1027 in Dattagalli II Stage. He had given a fake number to the non-existent site as 1027/A to mislead authorities.
Ramaswamy had paid an initial sum for the 3029 site but hadn't registered it in his name. Ramaswamy had recently approached Muda, at the time of his retirement in 2011-12, to register 3029 site in his name with an intention to cheat.
The issue came to the fore following an RTI query by activist BN Nagendra recently. Following the disclosure, Muda took possession of both sites and put up boards stating both were Muda properties.
Laskhmipuram police registered an FIR under sections 419 (cheating by personation) and 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property).