Updating Status
of inquiry against Sri Gajbhiye Satish
Kumar Ishwardas, IPS (U/S), exposed
through RTI
·
Though four months have passed,
Enquiry against Satish Gajbhiye by State
vigilance is not yet
completed.
·
Though four months have passed, enquiry
by Board of Revenue and Revenue
Divisional commissioner has not been
completed.
·
In the name of enquiry, the State
Administration is buying time and trying
hard to protect Satish Gajbhiye
Dear friends
All of you are aware
that Sri When
the people of Kendrapara district
were demonstrating against controversial Godman Baba Sarathi, Sri
Satish Gajbhiye, then SP, Kendrapara in
the name of controlling law and order
resorted to lathi charge,
mercilessly beating up the common people,
journalist and ruthless colonial
behaviour to the lawyers in August 2015. When
the Electronics media telecast the news about it, there was huge protest
and demonstration by the
political parties, Civil Society Groups, Lawyers’ Association demanding
arrest of Satish Gajbhiye.
During that time,
the Civil Society Groups exposed
fraud and forgery of Sri Gajbhiye
in respect of acquiring huge land in Gop block of
Puri district. The Fact-finding
team who visited Gop Block
to collect ground zero
information on 11th and 13th
of August’15 found that Sri
Gajbhiye had purchased huge landed property in name of his wife
Ranjana Gajbhiye in Gop block of Puri district. Acres
of land has been purchased from the
families of Dalit Caste and General Caste of Barimunda and Baulanga villages
under Gop Block of Puri. More than 35
acres of agriculture land had been purchased by him in name of his wife. The
people alleged that they had not seen
Ranjan Gajbhiye while selling and signing sale deed at the office of
Sub-Registrar, Gop. Two Dalals 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 Team
also noticed 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 had not
disclosed the information about
this property in his Property Statement submitted
to Govt. of India . On 12.8.15, the
Civil Society Groups filed complaint to
CBI, Bhubaneswar Office to enquire
into land scam of Satish Gajbhiye.
Then, after huge public demonstration demanding arrest
of Satish Gajbhiye across the state, the State Government was forced to suspend
Sri Gajbhiye. The Directorate of State Vigilance started an enquiry into
it. The Member, Board of Revenue also
instructed to RDC to equire into
allegation of land scam by Satish Gajbhiye on 19.8.15 and 21.9.15.
On 14.10.15, RTI
Application was submitted to the Directorate of Vigilance, Cuttack seeking
information about status of
inquiry against Satish Gajbhiye . On
24.11.15, the PIO has intimated that “ the Inquiry is in
progress against Sri Gajbhiye, IPS who
is under Suspension. In respect of Other
RTI query about name of Inquiry Officer
entrusted to conduct enquiry, the PIO
has declined to give their names citing
section 8 (1) (g)(h) of the RTI Act.
Similarly, on 14.10.15, RTI Application was submitted
to the PIO, Office of Board of Revenue, Govt. of Odisha seeking
information about status of
enquiry against Satish Gajbhiye. On 17.11.15, the PIO has supplied copy of
two letters dated 19.8.15 and 21.9.15 in which BOR
has issued direction referring news clipping to RDC,
Central Division to enquire into the allegations against Satish Gajbhiye and sought
Action Taken Report at the earliest. Interestingly, though
four months have passed, RDC has not
submitted the enquiry report.
Pradip Pradhan
RTI Activist
M-9937843482
Date- 18.12.15
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