Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu is contemplating for a judicial probe into land grabs during YCP’s regime by a sitting judge of the High Court. This was proposed at a review meeting conducted by the Chief Minister with the Revenue Department. A senior IAS and other senior IPS officials are likely to be part of this proposed judicial commission.
The government has been receiving numerous complaints of land encroachments by YCP leaders and those closely associated with them from all over the state. When Revenue Principal Secretary R.P. Sisodia was in Madanapalle last week to probe a fire mishap at the Sub Collector’s office, and a large number of victims surrounded him with complaints.
Similar complaints of land grabbing are also being received by the Chief Minister himself and other ministers in the cabinet. Moreover, several complaints are reaching TDP’s central office also. This has been reflecting public anger over YCP’s indiscriminate land encroachments during their regime. Valuable government lands have been confiscated and private lands were also looted by the politicians on a large scale in the state.
Such a wave of complaints has been bringing pressure on the government to go for a high-level probe into all such accusations. As a result, the Chief Minister is said to be proposing to constitute a three-member high-level committee, headed by a sitting high court judge to go through all such complaints.
The probe panel is expected to visit each and every affected area of the state to hear voices of the victims. It may be recalled that while presenting a white paper on looting of resources during the YCP regime, Chandrababu Naidu has announced on the 15th of this month that there will be a comprehensive inquiry into the land irregularities by the YCP leaders and the anarchism they have committed against the poor in the state.
In his preliminary report to the government after burning of files at Madanapalle Sub-Collector’s office, Sisodia also gave details of land grabbing activities in that area. He has reportedly briefed the Chief Minister at the review meeting on land grabbing episodes with more details.
Meanwhile, it is also reported that quasi-judicial fast-track courts to be set up zone-wise to facilitate the legal and official resolution of cases to cooperate with the committee. On the other hand, Chief Land Administration Commissioner Jayalakshmi will give a report on the status of assigned and dotted lands in the state and the changes to be made in caste verification certificates.