SIT submits report in leaseback scam to government

The special investigation team (SIT) formed to investigate into alleged land leaseback scam case on Monday submitted its report to the UP government.

The special investigation team (SIT) formed to investigate into alleged land leaseback scam case on Monday submitted its report to the UP government.

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Yamuna Expressway industrial development authority (Yeida) chief executive officer (CEO) Arun Vir Singh led the team that investigated the case in Greater Noida’s Bisrakh village. Singh refused to comment on the matter.

The case dates back to 2009-’10 when residential land was leased back to people from different states who were allegedly not farmers. As per rules, the Greater Noida authority could have leased-back housing land to local farmers, whose housing land was wrongly notified and acquired by the government.

There were at least 150 such cases in Greater Noida’s Bisrakh village.

Sources said that the probe established that there were violations in leaseback.

“As per the rules a farmer can get land residential land against his land acquired for the development at one place for the use of his family. But in Bisrakh more than one plots were leased back to a farmer,” said an official of Greater Noida authority, not authorised to speak to media.

In 2017, then divisional commissioner (Meerut) Dr Prabhat Kumar had appointed Singh to conduct a probe into this alleged scam.