The joint team of revenue officials from divisional administration assisted by police on Sunday raided multiple locations in ‘missing revenue record cases’ in parts of Jammu district. Official sources said that acting on plenty of complaints lodged with the government in the recent past regarding encroachment of the state land and land grabbed by some miscreants allegedly hand in glove with revenue officials, raids were conducted.
“The teams raided in Jammu west, north, Jammu south and in the outskirts,” sources said. They added that the residences of some retired revenue officials were also raided by the teams, who were allegedly involved in tampering and misplacing the land record to benefit the land grabbers. “The teams were constituted by the Jammu divisional administration, sources said.
They further added that many patwaris, girdawars and tehsildars are on radar and may face action in missing of land record case. On November 5 last year, taking strong cognizance of missing of vital public documents of the revenue villages Sunjwan and Chowadhi in Tehsil Bahu, the divisional commissioner Jammu, Dr Raghav Langer has directed sub-divisional magistrate (SDM), Jammu south for registering FIR against the accused in concerned police station of the jurisdiction.
The decision comes after the findings of a committee constituted by Div Com Jammu in June 2021 for random verification, ETS survey of encroachment of state/ kahcharai/ forest lands in the said revenue villages with instructions for the reconciliation of revenue records, which reported that Latha and Massavi (revenue maps) of village Chowadhi and Sunjwan in tehsil Bahu have been missing and not available with the field revenue officials.
However on December 12, revenue department in Jammu district claimed to have traced 95% Lathas and Mussavis for most of the villages, where the records were reportedly missing or dilapidated.
