Land wrongly transferred in name of Presidents kin

Amankar had issued notices to Shekhawat and seven others,including five from his family belonging to Chandrapur Khallar village,in response to a petition filed by a fellow villager,farmer Kishor Bansod,in June 2009. Those served notices included Shekhawats aunt Siddheshwar Shekhawat and her sons Bhanwarsingh Kishorsingh and Omsingh and his brother Raghusingh.

Amankars inquiry found that a wrong transfer procedure,called ferfar in official jargon,had resulted in the original ownership title getting transferred to the Shekhawat family. Documents show that the said farm is in the name of Bansod, Amankar has said.

Bansod had claimed that the three-acre farm was purchased by his father Mahadevrao in his name,while the Shekhawat family was involved in litigation over an adjacent patch of land belonging to Raisingh Dike.

The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court ruled in favour of the Shekhawats in 1982 and allowed them to buy about seven acres belonging to Dike. Bansod alleged that his land too was transferred to the Shekhawats along with that of Dike when the process started.

The Presidents son who is a Congress MLA,Rajinder Shekhawat,said there was no land grabbing charge in the case. The purchase of land being old,no land records were available,he said.

There is absolutely no hanky-panky and everything has been blown up, Devisingh Shekhawat had said last year on the case. He had also alleged that Bansod had been politically activated and the Shekhawat family was not interested in the plot.

with PTI