MOHALI: The state vigilance bureau on Monday arrested a naib tehsildar, a kanoongo, a patwari and eight other private persons on charges of being party to a wrongful mutation of land.
Serving Zirakpur naib tehsildar Varinder Pal Singh Dhoot, kanungo Raghubir Singh and patwari Iqbal Singh have been arrested, said vigilance bureau director IG L K Yadav. Others arrested are nambardar Gurnam Singh, property dealer Shamlal, Balbir Singh (of Chandigarh), Tarsem Lal of (Gudamajri, Kharar), Jaswinder Singh of Paindpur village, Gurpreet Singh of Mastgarh village, and Manbir Singh and Kabal Singh, both residents of Sri Muktsar Sahib.
According to vigilance officials, the case pertains to the order of partition of a land on May 17, 2017 by then assistant collector-cum-naib tehsildar, Majri, Varinder Pal Singh Dhoot. The court of SDM-cum-collector Himashu Jain found Dhoot and his revenue officers guilty of wrongly registering land mutation at Majri Kharar. Dhoot is accused of hurriedly deciding the land mutation without summoning all the shareholders.
The case was investigated by Shakshi Sahni, additional deputy commissioner, Mohali. The inquiry report stated that the inspection about this mutation was done by the halqa kanungo on December 25, 2017, despite it being a Christmas holiday, and Dhoot accepted the mutation on December 27.