Dumas Land Scam: Fugitive city survey superintendent arrested from Pune
CID Crime Branch has arrested Anant Patel, a former City Survey Superintendent, from Pune in relation to a land scam worth ₹2,000 crore in Surat’s Dumas. Patel had been on the run and was considered a key accused in the case, which involved illegal transfer of government land to private builders.The scam centers around approximately 2.17 lakh square meters of prime government land located under survey number 311/3 in the Dumas area. This land, valued at nearly ₹2,000 crore, was illegally transferred in the name of a tenant farmer named Krishnamukhlal Bhagwandas Shroff, despite no legal ownership or farming rights under Gujarat’s land tenure laws.This fraudulent transaction was carried out by allegedly manipulating government records and bypassing legal procedures. The case was also flagged to top state authorities, including Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, the Vigilance Commission, and the Revenue and General Administration Departments in Gandhinagar.Earlier, CID had arrested revenue officials and members associated with Samruddhi Corporation, a company alleged to be at the center of this scam. What’s the Surat Dumas land scam?A scam was unveiled involving a scheme named ‘Silent Zone’ after allegedly making bogus property cards of crores worth of farmer’s land of Dumas and Vata in Surat.CID Crime had registered a crime against officers-employees of the City Survey Superintendent Office.In which the City Survey Superintendent Anant Patel had allegedly issued the bogus property cards on the land.
CID Crime Branch has arrested Anant Patel, a former City Survey Superintendent, from Pune in relation to a land scam worth ₹2,000 crore in Surat’s Dumas. Patel had been on the run and was considered a key accused in the case, which involved illegal transfer of government land to private builders.
The scam centers around approximately 2.17 lakh square meters of prime government land located under survey number 311/3 in the Dumas area.
This land, valued at nearly ₹2,000 crore, was illegally transferred in the name of a tenant farmer named Krishnamukhlal Bhagwandas Shroff, despite no legal ownership or farming rights under Gujarat’s land tenure laws.
This fraudulent transaction was carried out by allegedly manipulating government records and bypassing legal procedures. The case was also flagged to top state authorities, including Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, the Vigilance Commission, and the Revenue and General Administration Departments in Gandhinagar.
Earlier, CID had arrested revenue officials and members associated with Samruddhi Corporation, a company alleged to be at the center of this scam.
What’s the Surat Dumas land scam?
A scam was unveiled involving a scheme named ‘Silent Zone’ after allegedly making bogus property cards of crores worth of farmer’s land of Dumas and Vata in Surat.
CID Crime had registered a crime against officers-employees of the City Survey Superintendent Office.
In which the City Survey Superintendent Anant Patel had allegedly issued the bogus property cards on the land.
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