<p class="title">Criminal cases have been lodged against eight people, including two retired officials for illegally selling a portion of the government land obtained on lease 83 years ago.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The owner and K Kora, a representative of Port Land Rubber Company in Makutta had obtained 1288.75 acres of land from the government on lease for a period of 99 years, towards rubber plantation. But, in 1980, the company representative K Kora and others sold 118.87 acres of land out of the total land, illegally, to B C Paulose, Chinnamma Mathew, Mathew and U Mathew, on March 25, 1980.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The lands sold were registered at the Sub Registrar’s Office in Virajpet, under record number 570/1979-80. The revenue officials had created fake certificates for the sold lands and the lands were transferred in the name of the buyers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The illegality came to light while examining the land records in Virajpet taluk office recently. Tahsildar Purandara submitted a complaint to the city police station.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The police have registered a complaint against Port Land company owner, representative K Kora, buyer B C Paulose, Chinnamma Mathew, Mathew, U Mathew and the then revenue inspector K B Ayyappa and the then deputy tahsildar M C Ponnappa. An FIR has been registered against the accused.</p>
<p class="title">Criminal cases have been lodged against eight people, including two retired officials for illegally selling a portion of the government land obtained on lease 83 years ago.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The owner and K Kora, a representative of Port Land Rubber Company in Makutta had obtained 1288.75 acres of land from the government on lease for a period of 99 years, towards rubber plantation. But, in 1980, the company representative K Kora and others sold 118.87 acres of land out of the total land, illegally, to B C Paulose, Chinnamma Mathew, Mathew and U Mathew, on March 25, 1980.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The lands sold were registered at the Sub Registrar’s Office in Virajpet, under record number 570/1979-80. The revenue officials had created fake certificates for the sold lands and the lands were transferred in the name of the buyers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The illegality came to light while examining the land records in Virajpet taluk office recently. Tahsildar Purandara submitted a complaint to the city police station.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The police have registered a complaint against Port Land company owner, representative K Kora, buyer B C Paulose, Chinnamma Mathew, Mathew, U Mathew and the then revenue inspector K B Ayyappa and the then deputy tahsildar M C Ponnappa. An FIR has been registered against the accused.</p>