3 officials booked by DVAC suspended

3 officials booked by DVAC suspended

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:10.08.2021

Three sub-registrars including a Chennaibased official who was booked by the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) last week and an assistant in the registration department have been suspended for not obeying circulars issued by the inspector general of registration and carrying out activities affecting the public. An official press release said several circulars were issued to prevent fraudulent registrations. The inspector general of registration has placed Kodaikanal sub-registrar M Radhakrishnan, Othakadai, Madurai sub-registrar Sheik Abdullah, an assistant at the Othakadai office M Karthikeyan and Selaiyur sub-registrar A J George under suspension, the press release added. On Wednesday, the DVAC had registered a case against George after a recorded phone call exposed his demand for bribe.

Official sources in the registration department said that a sub-registrar in Madurai district had illegally facilitated the registration of 22 acres of land based on documents from Kerala. Another official in Dindigul district registered a fraudulent property, wherein a fake patta was used following which the original land owner approached the court concerned seeking relief. Moreover, one of the suspended officials was an accused in an FIR pertaining to a case relating to creating a fake Power of Attorney (PoA) to sell a plot at Madhavaram in Chennai worth ₹4 crore by forging the identity card of a person born in the city, who was residing in Australia in 2018.