ACB searches on SRO, tahsildar, town planning offices

ACB searches on SRO, tahsildar, town planning offices

TNN | Sep 3, 2020, 04.30 AM IST

Vijayawada: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) conducted state-wide searches on tahsildar, sub-registrar and town planning offices and noticed several irregularities on Wednesday. According to officials, the ACB recovered unaccounted money in all the offices they raided and found that employees were not maintaining personal cash register properly.

In Srikakulam, officials raided Santhakaviti tahsildar office and found 30 pattadar pass books that were not distributed for the last three months. Other irregularities include 15 pending Spandana petitions, 242 Meeseva petitions and staff having Rs 22,810 unauthorised cash.

In Krishna district, officials raided Ibrahimpatnam tahsildar office and found unaccounted money of Rs 2.28 lakh from 10 employees. They found 12,687 applications received in Meeseva, out of which, 9,900 applications were approved and 885 of them were rejected without assigning reason.

Around 1,669 applications are within SLA (service level agreement) and 40 of them set to lapse in 24 hours. “On verification of the attendance register for the year 2020, it was found that the names of only 11 staff were entered. Some members had signed and some did not sign up to August 2020 and the register for the month of September not yet opened,” ACB official said.

Officials also raided the sub-registrar office in Jaggaiahpet in Krishna district and found Rs 11,180 cash from M Lakshmana Rao, a private person. The officials stated that Rao is engaged by the sub-registrar to collect bribes. Similar offences were noticed at sub-registrar offices in Kadapa and Chittoor. The officials also raided the town planning office at Gudur municipality in Nellore district and found eight petitions regarding layout regularisation scheme and 140 petitions regarding public grievances were pending. They also found lapses in collecting tax dues of advertisement hoardings till date.