Udaipur News Desk: For the first time, arrests were made in the much talked about scam of 272 plots of Udaipur Municipal Corporation. SOG arrested two accused on Thursday. SOG has also named 5 other accused, the search for them is going on. One of the arrested accused is Rakesh Solanki, who was the Ward Panch in Panchmahal, Gujarat, the other is Deepak Singh Chauhan, a resident of Udaipur. Both were sent to jail. He had made fake documents of a plot in Hiranmagari and got the lease deed and transfer letter issued from the corporation in the name of a fake person. SOG ASP Swati Sharma said that a report was filed in the year 2022 in the scam of 272 plots.
It was told that Municipal Corporation has plot number 546 in Hiranmagari Sector-11, which has been transferred from UIT. Fake documents, allotment letter, possession letter and office note of this plot were made. Got the lease deed and transfer letter issued from the corporation in the name of fake person Kishan Patel. After this he sold it to Anil Kachauria, resident of Salumbar, for Rs 50.01 lakh. While investigating in this case, SOG arrested Rakesh Solanki, resident of Panchmahal, Gujarat Hall Ambamata Scheme and Deepak Singh Chauhan, resident of UIT Colony, Purohito Ki Madri. During interrogation it was revealed that both of them had good relations with the officials in the corporation. Deepak had made fake documents of the plot. In such a situation, I am familiar with most of the people there. From there the dummy would bring the people here. Then both of them together would have made the deal of the plots with fake documents. SOG has taken samples of Deepak’s handwriting and sent them to FSL for investigation. SI Mahendra Singh, Head Constable Lalit Kumar, Constable Pradeep Singh, Jaswant Singh, Pawan Kumar, Mukesh Kumar and Ila Singh played a major role in arresting the accused.
The matter came to light two years ago, echoed in the assembly
UIT had transferred some colonies to the corporation in 2012. Many of these plots were vacant and most of them were corner. People took possession of them due to lack of proper maintenance. Transfers of many plots were made by making fake documents. Some were sold by brokers. This issue was raised by Congress associate councilor Ajay Porwal. After investigation, the corporation canceled 48 leases. Meanwhile, city MLA Tarachand Jain had also raised the issue in the Assembly and called it a scam of Rs 500 crore. The matter came to SOG in April 2022. Its investigation is ongoing.
