President Pratibha Patil's Family fudge land records

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SATISH NANDGAONKAR

Mumbai, Feb. 10: A revenue court in Vidarbha has issued orders restoring a disputed piece of land to a poor farmer who alleged that six relatives of President Pratibha Patil, including her husband Devisinh Shekhawat, had tried to illegally transfer the plot in their names.

Ashok Amankar, the sub-divisional officer (SDO) of Daryapur, who has quasi-judicial powers, issued orders stating that the names of Devisinh, his sister-in-law Siddeshwar Lalsinh Shekhawat, her sons Bhanwarsinh, Kishoresinh and Omsinh, and his nephew Raghusinh Ramsinh Shekhawat be deleted from the records of the land belonging to farmer Kishore Bansod.

The verdict came in December 2009, but Bansod’s lawyer Sunil Gajbhiye received a certified copy of the order today.

Bansod, who owns the 2.55-acre plot next to a 200-acre farm of the Shekhawat family in their ancestral village Chandrapur Khallar, had filed a complaint with the SDO in June last year.

The farmer alleged that Devisinh had used his “powerful political influence” to insert the six names with the help of the local revenue inspector and the talathi, a village subordinate who maintains land records.

In his order dated December 7, 2009, Amankar allowed Bansod’s appeal and annulled the changes made in the records by the block officer pertaining to the plot — Survey No. 31/1F, Group No. 19. He ordered the land to be “re-measured and restored to the rightful owner”.

“Justice has finally prevailed. Bansod was a minor in 1985 when his father had purchased this piece of land, and it is still in his possession. Without his knowledge, the Shekhawats tried to illegally transfer the land in their name. Thanks to the honest and brave work done by the sub-divisional officer, a poor farmer has got justice,” said lawyer Gajbhiye, speaking from Amravati.

Rajinder Shekhawat, the President’s son, told PTI in Delhi: “The order was that a fresh measurement of the land will take place... there is no such issue of land-grab.”

The people of India still remember with nostalgia the 5 years our previous President Dr. Abdul Kalam was in offfice.
There was not a whiff of corruption charges against him.
He went out of his way to help the needy and when the political parties tried to use him as a pawn to settle their scores, he quietly withdrew from contesting.
Contrast this with the incumbent president.
Corruption charges have been hurled against her even before she contested.
The congress party foisted her on the people so that they could have a pliable dummy who would do their bidding.
They rewarded her by allowing her son to contest an election and win.
However, the corruption charges against her and her family continue to dog her as the above shows.
If the head of state is neither honest nor appears to be honest, how can he/she hope that those who work using her name will remain honest.
When she exhorts people to be honest, don't you think they will laugh at her?
When she visits foreign countries, don't you thing the foreign dignitaries will smirk at her on her face. They don't have to do it behind her back for her dishonesty has been proved.