Fact-finding Report on “illegal accumulation of huge landed
property” by Satish Gajbhiye, IPS Officer in Gop Block of Puri district, Odisha
In the midst of organising rally and demonstration on 10.8.15 at lower PMG,
Bhubaneswar demanding arrest of Satish Gajbhiye, SP, Kendrapara for his order of resorting lathi charge,
mercilessly beating up the common
people, journalist and ruthless colonial
behaviour to the lawyers in Kendrapara district
who were demonstrating against controversial Godman Baba Sarathi, we
received information from unidentified
sources that Sri
Satish Gajbhiye, IPS officer in name of his wife Ranjana Gajbhiye had purchased
huge landed property in Gop block of
Puri district. Immediately, it was thought of to send a Fact-finding
team of Civil Society Groups to the spot
to ascertain fact about it. It
deserves to be mentioned here
that few months back , Sri Satish
Gajbhiye was interrogated by CBI for
his alleged link with fraud Chit Fund Operators in the State. The Fact-finding Team visited
twice to Gop Block on 11.8.15 and 13.8.15 to collect information about
his landed property and huge investment of crores of rupees for fishery in that
area. The Team members were
1.
Sri Pradip Pradhan, State Convener, Odisha Soochana Adhikar
Abhijan
2.
Sri Sudhir Mohanty,
Advocate, Odisha High Court
3.
Sri Pratap Sahu, Basti Surakhya Sangharash Samiti
4.
Sri Ashok Mallik, State President, NACDOR, New Delhi
5.
Sri Ashok Das, Samajik Nyaya Andolan
6.
Sri Sanjay Sahu, Social Activist
7.
Sri Satya Sundar Sahu
Visit on 11.8.15
The Team reached
at 12.30 in Gop block and rushed to
the spot Bada Kiapala Mouza where
Sri Gajbhiye had purchased the land. This place is around 65
km from Bhubaneswar, 25 km from Nimapara block under Puri district. Prior to
visit to the spot, the Team had collected the copy of sale deed from the people and found that huge land
had been purchased from the families of Dalit Caste and General Caste of
Borimunda, Koruala and Alana village of Baulanga Gram Panchayat. The
team members walked on approached road
to reach at the spot which is around one km from Alana village. The Team
noticed huge excavation work going on for digging pond covering around 90 acres
of land. It took two hours to visit the
entire land under the fishery project. Five no. of 10 HP big Motors have been
installed fitting with big Generator to draw water from river Kadua and pump it to the pond. After physical inspection, the team interacted with the villagers and the people who
have sold the land to Satish Gajbhiye. It was found that more than 35 acres of
agriculture land had been purchased by him in name of his wife Ranjana
Gajbhiye. They also said that they had not seen Ranjan Gajbhiye while selling
and signing sale deed at the office of Sub-Registrar, Gop. Two Dalals (
brokers) who are linked with Chit Fund Operators Sri Kailash Pradhan of Chadheigan village
of Nagpur Panchayat and Sri Dillip Nayak of Chhanijang had executed all the works including giving
money against the cost of the land on behalf of Ranjan Gajbhiye. The people who
have sold the land are as follows.
Sl.No
|
Name
of Gram Panchayat
|
Name
of village
|
Name
of the seller of Land
|
Caste
|
Quantity
of land sold in Ac ( Approx.)
|
1
|
Baulang
|
Koruala
|
Baistnab Behera
|
Scheduled Caste
|
1 AC
|
2
|
Do
|
Do
|
Gobardhan Kandi
|
DO
|
1 Ac
|
3
|
Do
|
Do
|
Lokanath Behera
|
DO
|
1 Ac
|
4
|
Do
|
DO
|
Duba Jena
|
DO
|
1 Ac
|
5
|
Do
|
Do
|
Braja Sahu
|
General Caste
|
1 Ac
|
6
|
Do
|
Do
|
Bhramar Biswal
|
Do
|
1 Ac
|
7
|
Do
|
Do
|
Jata Kuanr
|
Do
|
1 Ac
|
8
|
Do
|
Do
|
Bansidhar Lenka
|
Do
|
1 Ac
|
9
|
Do
|
Do
|
Nabaghana Lenka
|
Do
|
1 Ac
|
10
|
Do
|
Do
|
Madhu Kuanr
|
Do
|
1 Ac
|
11
|
Do
|
Do
|
Jahan Biswal
|
Do
|
1 Ac
|
12
|
Do
|
Do
|
Madhab Pradhan
|
Do
|
1 Ac
|
13
|
Do
|
Do
|
Dukhishyam Parida
|
Do
|
1 AC
|
14
|
Do
|
Do
|
Linga Kuanr
|
Do
|
1 Ac
|
15
|
Do
|
Do
|
Rabi Sahu
|
Do
|
1 Ac
|
16
|
Do
|
Alana
|
Naran Dalei
|
DO
|
0.47 Ac
|
17
|
Do
|
Do
|
Gandharba Pradhan
|
Do
|
1.20 Ac
|
19
|
Do
|
Do
|
Charan Dalei
|
Do
|
0.39 Ac
|
20
|
Do
|
Do
|
Brajabandhu Dalei
|
Do
|
0.39 Ac
|
21
|
Do
|
Do
|
Katha dalei
|
Do
|
0.39 Ac
|
22
|
Do
|
Do
|
Ghana Muduli
|
Do
|
0.16 Ac
|
23
|
Do
|
Do
|
Banamali Patra
|
Do
|
1.11 Ac
|
24
|
Do
|
Do
|
Baidhar Dalei
|
Do
|
3 Ac
|
25
|
Do
|
Do
|
Padma Ch. Murundi
Brahmanand Murudi
Bishu h. Murundi
|
Do
|
2.5 Ac
|
26
|
Do
|
Borimunda
|
Hari Mallik
|
Scheduled caste
|
information could not be obtained due to his absence
|
27
|
Do
|
Do
|
Kari Mallik
|
Do
|
Do
|
28
|
Do
|
Do
|
Nari Mallik
|
Do
|
Do
|
29
|
Do
|
Do
|
Bhramarbar Mallik
|
Do
|
Do
|
Besides that it was also found that he had also illegally acquired
and encroached more than 40
acres of
Gochar and Anabadi land and river bed of Kadua river and engaged dalals
for construction of number of big
ponds for fishery which is going on
since 2013. The rough estimate for
investment into magnitude of work
undertaken for digging pond
in around 100 acres of land
will be more than 30 to 40 crores. Astonishingly, Sri
Gajbhiye has not
disclosed the information about
this property in his Property Statement submitted
to Govt. of India .
Visit on 13.8.15
The Team visited office of Tahasildar of Gop
and tried to obtain the map of Badakiapala Mouza in which Sri Satish GajBhiye has purchased the land. Despite hard effort,
the Team members could not obtain the Map and left the place for meeting with
the villagers of Alana village and the location of the land. Sri kamalakant Kuanr
of Koruala village and Siba Dalei
of Alana village enlightened
the team about history of the
land situation in that area. That area is basically water logged area. In 2002-03, the State Govt. set up a Lift
Irrigation Unit under KFW project with proper electricity connection. There was
huge pipe line connected to different areas for supply of water to agricultural
field. It was estimated that this L.I
project would irrigate 1000 Acres of land of five villages. But actually it was
irrigating 500 acres of land. This L.I. Point became defunct since 2008-09 due
to various reasons like theft of electricity weir, pump etc. Though the
villagers lodged complaint, the administration did not take any steps to repair
it. The Team also came to know that
there was conspiracy by the powerful people to make it defunct. In the absence
of irrigation facility, the agricultural land remained fallow and unusable.
This provided golden opportunity to the land grabbers or land mafia like Satish
Gajbhiye to motivate the people to sell the land at better and reasonable
price. The Land mafias took a lot of efforts to motivate the people and got
succeeded. The poor people who could not get any benefit from fallow land sold
their land to Land Mafias. They were also assured to get other benefits when
the project will be set up and functional on their land.
From 2012 onwards, Sri Satish Gajbhiye started his operation
of digging huge pond for fishing cultivation with an estimated cost of more
than 30 to 40 crores rupees. When the
project got started, the installed
pipelines were destroyed and taken away from that area. The huge construction of pond
has blocked the natural flow of
water causing further water logging in the area which has resulted in loss of paddy in 500 acres of land
in the last year. Now the few common questions come to mind of the Team
which needs to be enquired.
a.
How Sri
Gajbhiye got such huge money for
investment for fishery and its source?
b.
How he got contact with land brokers of this area to purchase land?
c.
Has he partnered with different people for this project? If yes, who
are they and how he got introduced with them.
d.
Has he got money from fraud Chit Fund Operators? If yes, who are
they?
e.
Has he got any money from
Baba sarathi of Kendrapara ?
f.
Why did Sri Gajbhiye purchase land in the name of his wife?
It is needless to
mention here that few months back, CBI had interrogated Sri Satish Gajbhiye,
IPS officer in connection with his link
with fraud Chit Fund Operators. But the
CBI had not taken any steps to arrest him. It may be that CBI might have not got
proper evidence in this matter.
Our Recommendation and Follow up Action
1. As the
CBI had interrogated Sri Gajbhiye
for his link with Chit Fund Companies, it should be handed over to CBI for
further investigation into huge investment made for fishery
in Gop Block.
2. The
State Govt. should enquire into details of land purchased and illegally grabbed
by Sri Gajbhiye and put it in public domain.
3. The
State Govt. should disclose the name of the people involved in this land scam.
4. The State
Govt. should make thorough investigation about similar kind of land
grabbing in these areas like Gop,
Astarang, Brahmagiri etc.
After fact-finding visit, the Team has submitted petition to SP,
CBI to reopen the file of Sri Satish
Gajbhiye, as he has accumulated huge money and invested
for fishery through Chit Fund Operators.
Report prepared by
Pradip Pradhan
RTI Activist
State Convener
Odisha Soochana Adhikar Abhijan
Plot No-D-27, Maître Vihar
Post-Rail Vihar, Bhubaneswar-23
M-9937843482
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