Revenue Officials Strike Work for Fifth Day
Protesting arrest of a land revenue official in an alleged land scam, revenue officials continued their strike on the fifth consecutive day on Thursday.
Spokesperson of the Madhya Pradesh Revenue Officers Association Narendra Singh Thakur described the strike as ‘cent-per-cent’ successful, for all 1100 tehsildars and naib tehsildars struck the work across the state.
It may be mentioned that naib tehsildar of Katni district Rajesh Kaushik was arrested on October 23 from Anooppur district in connection with a land transfer case.
Police claimed that Kaushik transferred government land to a private individual and thus he committed fraud, on the contrary revenue officials maintained that Kaushik should not be held responsible for the lapse as the land was transferred on the basis of records and its registry.
“The tehsildars and revenue officials don’t have powers to inquire into the registry of land and the land in question was a private land in records since 1954,” the association’s state vice president Ashok Vyas said.
“Naib tehsildars are covered under the Judges Protection Act and therefore police cannot arrest them without due permission from appropriate authority or the law department,” Vyas maintained.
“We have met Jabalpur range Inspector General of Police M.R. Krishna and apprised him about the police excesses against revenue officials, including Kaushik, in Mandla and Katni,” he added.
Spokesperson Thakur said: “Memorandums were also submitted to the principal secretaries of revenue and home departments and the chief secretary demanding that Katni district’s police superintendent be suspended for arresting Kaushik.”
