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Kumud Choudhary
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Ranchi, Sept. 7: An organisation fighting for the safeguard of tribal land today accused director-general (home guards) Kumud Choudhary, who is also the chief secretary’s wife, of buying government land at Chakla under Ormanjhi circle of Ranchi by producing forged documents.
Addressing mediapersons this afternoon, convener of CNT Act Suraksha Samiti Prabhakar Tirkey said that Choudhary purchased 1.08 acre gair mazrua khas land at Chakla on August 23, 2007, by paying Rs 9.8 lakh to a homemaker named Kaimun Khatoon, the wife of Sheikh Asmuddin.
Kumud Choudhary was not available for comment.
The chief secretary, however, denied the allegations, saying, “The charges levelled against us are wrong. The land was purchased from its owner and all documents relating to the transaction are available with us. The land does not belong to a tribal, so it is useless to invoke the CNT Act in the matter. If anyone has a problem with the deal, he or she can take up the matter with an appropriate legal forum.”
Tirkey told reporters, “The transaction was wrong, as Khatoon is not the owner of the land, which falls in gair mazrua khas category. The government happens to be the actual owner of such land after the abolition of the zamindari system in 1956.”
He alleged that the director-general and her husband used their influence to complete legal formalities of registration and mutation with the help of forged documents.
“S.K. Choudhary, who is the chief secretary, was witness to the deal,” Tirkey said, demanding the dismissal of the officials who provided the alleged forged documents.
Seeking legal action against the duo, Tirkey said, “The IPS officer even spared 17 decimals from the purchased land for construction of national highway and got a compensation of more than Rs 10 lakh in June. Thus, she even misappropriated government money, as compensation is not given vis-à-vis gair mazrua land.”
Calling for a CBI enquiry, Tirkey argued that as senior IPS and IAS officers, who were supposed to be defenders of public land, were involved, the matter should be probed by a central investigating agency.
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