Land sharks in connivance with officials are taking advantage of the weakness in the software of the registration department to grab key plots belonging to various government agencies. This came to the fore with the recent revelations of the sale of three acres in 2017. Tamil Nadu Housing Board In Mogappair, with a market value of Rs 150 crore.
Government related land shows guideline value of zero in Tamil Nadu official door For registration, STAR 2.0 (Simplified and Transparent Administration of Registration), is an indication that it is public property and is not to be sold. However, officers of sub-registrar offices may specify a guideline value based on the private property in the vicinity. This is how the scam works.
HR related assets and this The department, for example, shows the registration as ‘lease’ in the department’s website, although the guideline value is zero. Considering the guideline value of the adjacent property, the temple land is registered as illegal. In the case of Revenue Department land, Porambok is used to execute a fake lease transaction for the land parcel.
When asked why the portal cannot be made tamper-proof by not allowing the replacement of ‘nil’, the officials said that around seven lakh survey numbers of private property on the website were wrongly referred to as ‘porombok’ land. was classified. So the authorities should be able to make changes.
Another trick of the scammers was to register the property in one part of the city through joint registration in a sub-registrar’s office in another part. For example, illegal sale of TNHB plot in Mogappair falling under the jurisdiction of Konnur Sub Registrar Office was documented velachery By linking the office of the Sub-Registrar with 400 sq. ft. plot located at Velachery for joint registration.
TNHB did not respond to TOI’s queries regarding illegal property transactions, while a senior registration officer said action is being taken and loopholes in STAR 2.0 will be plugged.
Meanwhile, HR and CE commissioner J Kumargurubaran has written to the commissioner of land administration to stop bogus registration of temple land in the state. In a release on Thursday, he said it is now proposed to flag completely matched cases in the Tamil Sapphire database with the name ‘T’, so that transactions cannot be registered. But this still leaves temple land which is not properly accounted for.
Government related land shows guideline value of zero in Tamil Nadu official door For registration, STAR 2.0 (Simplified and Transparent Administration of Registration), is an indication that it is public property and is not to be sold. However, officers of sub-registrar offices may specify a guideline value based on the private property in the vicinity. This is how the scam works.
HR related assets and this The department, for example, shows the registration as ‘lease’ in the department’s website, although the guideline value is zero. Considering the guideline value of the adjacent property, the temple land is registered as illegal. In the case of Revenue Department land, Porambok is used to execute a fake lease transaction for the land parcel.
When asked why the portal cannot be made tamper-proof by not allowing the replacement of ‘nil’, the officials said that around seven lakh survey numbers of private property on the website were wrongly referred to as ‘porombok’ land. was classified. So the authorities should be able to make changes.
Another trick of the scammers was to register the property in one part of the city through joint registration in a sub-registrar’s office in another part. For example, illegal sale of TNHB plot in Mogappair falling under the jurisdiction of Konnur Sub Registrar Office was documented velachery By linking the office of the Sub-Registrar with 400 sq. ft. plot located at Velachery for joint registration.
TNHB did not respond to TOI’s queries regarding illegal property transactions, while a senior registration officer said action is being taken and loopholes in STAR 2.0 will be plugged.
Meanwhile, HR and CE commissioner J Kumargurubaran has written to the commissioner of land administration to stop bogus registration of temple land in the state. In a release on Thursday, he said it is now proposed to flag completely matched cases in the Tamil Sapphire database with the name ‘T’, so that transactions cannot be registered. But this still leaves temple land which is not properly accounted for.
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