Land Deal Scam

Land deal row: Parth Pawar's firm must pay double duty to cancel sale deed

After Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's announcement that the sale deed executed by his son Parth Pawar's firm for a prime land in Pune has been cancelled, it has come to light that Amadea Enterprises LLP will now have to pay double stamp duty, which comes to Rs 42 crore, for cancellation. The Department of Registration and Stamps has informed Digvijay Amarsinh Patil, the cousin of Parth Pawar and a partner in Amadea Enterprises LLP, that the firm must pay the earlier 7 per cent stamp duty (5 per cent under the Maharashtra Stamp Act, 1 percent Local Body Tax and 1 percent Metro Cess), as it had sought an exemption by claiming a data centre was proposed on the land. It must also pay an additional 7 per cent stamp duty to execute the cancellation deed, officials from the department said. According to the department, the firm had claimed a stamp duty exemption at the time of the sale deed by stating that a data centre would be set up on the land. But the cancellation deed

After probe order, Ajit Pawar says Parth's Pune land deal stands cancelled

The deal in question came under the scanner on Thursday, following which Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced that a probe had been ordered into the matter

Fadnavis orders probe into ₹300 crore land deal linked to Ajit Pawar's son

The Maharashtra Revenue Department has suspended a sub-registrar and formed a panel to probe how a government land in Pune was sold to a firm linked to Parth Pawar with stamp duty waived

Prashant Bhushan alleges high-level corruption in Bihar land deal

Senior Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan on Saturday charged the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar with indulging in "corruption at the highest level" by leasing out 1,000 acres of land to a leading conglomerate at a throwaway price. Addressing a press conference here, Bhushan referred to an upcoming power project at Bhagalpur, for which a 30-year lease has been secured by the business group, reportedly at a rate of just one rupee per annum. Bhushan alleged that the NDA government has agreed to a deal, which would "result in an estimated annual loss of Rs 5,000 crore" to the state exchequer and suspected "corruption at the highest level" in awarding the contract. He also stressed the need for "transparency and fairness" in the state's mechanism for land acquisition, and suggested that a commission be set up to ensure the affected people got adequate compensation. The Congress had led a march in the city over the issue earlier this week, but state industry minister Nitish Mishra

FIR filed against ex-Lodha Developers director over land irregularities

Mumbai Police has filed an FIR against former Lodha Developers director Rajendra Lodha, his son Sahil Lodha and others over alleged land deal irregularities causing Rs 85 crore loss

'Ghost' litigant, phantom lawyers, and fake deal: SC duped in land dispute

A fake respondent, forged compromise, and mystery lawyers led the Supreme Court to quash real orders-until the true party exposed the fraud

Karnataka Lokayukta unearths Rs 16.85 cr scam in SC/ST land allotment

A land allotment scam worth Rs 16.85 crore has come to light in the Vijayapura District Ambedkar Development Corporation, where bogus documents were created for land that was meant to be distributed to landless women from the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. In the wake of the recent revelation of financial irregularities in Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribe Development Corporation to the tune of Rs 88 crore, the scam in the Ambedkar Development Corporation was uncovered after Lokayukta sleuths raided several officers' offices based on a complaint. According to a statement issued by the Lokayukta on Saturday, a person had lodged a complaint alleging that the Vijayapura District Ambedkar Development Corporation did not distribute land to landless women agricultural workers from the Scheduled Castes under the Land Ownership Scheme from 2014 to 2018. Instead, they created fake purchase documents in the names of the beneficiaries and purchased the land without paying the .

Land deals slowing down? Not everywhere! Bengaluru, Gurugram still booming

Bengaluru remained the top city for land deals with 9 deals for around 114 acres, all for residential projects.

Little room: Businesses struggle for expansion in Kolhapur and Sangli

Stifled growth: Businesses grapple with land shortage and soaring power tariffs

NHRC visits Sandeshkhali for 2nd day to probe allegations of land-grabbing

An NHRC team visited trouble-torn Sandeshkhali for the second consecutive day on Saturday to investigate into allegations of land-grabbing by some TMC leaders. A CPI(M) delegation led by Minakshi Mukhopadhyay also visited the strife-hit region in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal even as an uneasy calm prevailed with police patrolling the area. Mukhopadhyay, along with party leader Palash Das, visited various households and spoke to the locals. ADG (South Bengal) Supratim Sarkar also made a visit to the area. Meanwhile, BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari likened the situation in Sandeshkhali to Nandigram, where a movement against "forcible" land acquisition by the then Left Front government in 2007-08 catapulted the TMC to power in 2011. "The situation in Sandeshkhali is like Nandigram... people have brought serious allegations of land-grabbing, vote-looting, sexual harassment and murder of democracy in the area," he told reporters in Kolkata. Prohibitory orders under Section 14

Probe underway in 2005-06 land deal of Priyanka Gandhi, Robert Vadra: ED

Purchase of three plots of land in Haryana in 2005-06 by Congress leader Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra from a real estate agent is being probed along with a land deal made by his wife Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the ED claimed in a recently filed money laundering case charge-sheet. The federal agency filed the charge-sheet (prosecution complaint ) in November before a court against NRI businessman C C Thampi, who is allegedly linked to Robert Vadra, and Sumit Chadha, a relative of alleged middleman Sanjay Bhandari. Though Robert Vadra and Priyanka Gandhi, a Congress general secretary, have not been named as accused in the charge-sheet, this is the first time that they have been named together in the complaint. A special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Delhi took cognisance of this charge-sheet on December 22 and listed the matter for next hearing on January 29, 2024. Bhandari fled to the UK in 2016 and the British government approved his extradition to India

Punjab to probe irregularities in land deal for seed farm in 2008: Minister

Punjab Agriculture Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal has said that the state government will probe alleged irregularities in purchasing land at a whopping Rs 32 crore for setting up a seed farm near the international border in Amritsar in 2008. He said 700 acres of land near the border in Rania village was bought at an exorbitant rate by the agriculture department. In a statement here, the minister said, "During the then Parkash Singh Badal government when Sucha Singh Langah was the agriculture minister and Kahan Singh Pannu was the deputy commissioner of district Amritsar, this land was bought at a very high price. The then government purchased this land at Rs 4.5 lakh per acre, which is across the Ravi river near the international border, he said, adding that one cannot approach this land without the prior permission of the Border Security Force. "An investigation will be conducted under which scheme this land was purchased at that time", he said. "We will find out the farmers who

Land deal scam: Trouble mounts for Khadse as BJP mulls action

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has been summoned to the national capital by party chief Amit Shah to discuss the matter