Odisha land record and settlement court orders govt

The Odisha land record and settlement commissioner court here today directed the Jajpur district collector to restore an area of 70 acres of government land that had been recorded about 3 decades ago in the name of a retired Chief Secretary and his brothers.
The Commissioner court of A K Tarenia, disposing of at least five revision petitions filed by Danagadi tehsildar, directed the District Collector to take possession of the government land at Salijanga village as 'unoccupied forest' land.
The contentious government land was fraudulently recorded in the names of Bidubhusan Das, Chandi Charan Das and former Chief Secretary Rabinarayan Das, a retired IAS officer, who are sons of late Durga Charan Das by the Settlement personnel during Hal Settlement operation in 1983 on the basis of hand-written Record-of-Rights (RoR).

The petitions alleged that the retired IAS officer and his brothers sold the suit property at different points of time to different persons through registered sale deeds.
Neither the former Chief Secretary Rabinarayan Das nor his brothers were immediately available for comments.
After hearing all stakeholders, the Commissioner court was satisfied that the suit property was fraudulently recorded in the names of Das brothers and ordered the district collector to restore them immediately.