Fake site allotment racket run by BDA staff busted in K’taka

Bengaluru, Dec 4 : A fake site allotment document racket run by four officials of the Bengaluru Development Authority was busted on Friday in a joint operation launched by the Bengaluru city police and the Bengaluru Development Authority Task Force.
The quantum of the scam is yet to be ascertained, but prima facie investigation suggested that the fake site allotment racket could be valued at around Rs 300 crore. Four BDA officials were running the racket, the police claimed.
According to a complaint, four officials from the BDA had hired a plush office on Cunningham Road, just a stone’s throw away from Bengaluru city police commissioner’s office.
According to the police, BDA’s joint secretary-3 Shive Gowda and real estate agent Indra Kumar are the prime accused in this scam. Kumar is the owner of Redhans company while the office space in which this company operated was owned by Gowda, the police said.
Apart from these two accused, three more officials were involved in the scam, Kamlamma, a tahasildar, and Sharat and Samapth, working as clerks in the BDA.
The police have recovered at least 60 fake site allotment documents valued at around Rs 100 crore, forged seals and letter heads of the BDA commissioner and a host of other materials from this premises.