Khammam: Creation of fake property documents on house sites belonging to others is rampant and a major worry to property owners in the Khammam Municipal Corporation (KMC) limits. Revenue officials of the city corporation are reportedly behind such rackets.
The modus operandi is as follows. An interested party gives an application to the corporation, seeking a house number to his home by saying he planned to build a Madras Terrace roof. The local revenue inspector would do a field visit and conclude that there was a shed in the house.
With this, a property tax identification number (PTIN) will be created on the property of others. The real owner is not aware as to what’s happening.
It is alleged that some staff in the KMC’s revenue department are conniving with such fraudsters and creating false documents on other people’s property. The property tax document is signed by the revenue inspector Lokesh.
The case of Kuppala Laxman, who had 200 square yards in Ramanagutta Colony, is cited in this context. He found that a false property tax document was produced on his house in the name of Daravat Sirisha, wife of some Balaji. The PTIN number for the false document is 1106062168.
The fraudsters got an injection order on the property by filing a case in the court. Laxman, shocked over this, complained about this to collector VP Gautham.
The government took a serious note of this and asked the commissioner of KMC to inquire into the matter.
In the field visit by revenue officials of KMC, it was found there existed a vacant land at the said site but there was no madras terrace roof. Laxman said he represented his issue to both the collector and the KMC commissioner. “This is my one and only property and some persons are creating trouble for me with the false documents,” he said.
He said the collector has ordered an inquiry into such scams in the corporation limits.
Allegations are that massive sums are being changed for the creation of false property documents. Fraudsters are seeking and getting injunction orders from courts by producing fake documents. The real owner is shocked when he gets an injunction order on his own property. Such a false PTIN (1106074770) was found in the name B Vinay Kumar on a house site in Raparthinagar.
