The State Information Commission (SIC) has asked the district administration to supply the masavi (a revenue map) of Noor Bhaini village to a man who moved the Commission alleging that in the absence of the document, government land of the area was being illegally sold and purchased by ‘unauthorised’ persons.

The Commission has also directed the District Revenue Officer (DRO) to appear before the panel on August 20.

Mandeep Singh, a resident of Rattowal village in Ludhiana district, had approached the SIC alleging that the masavi of Noor Bhaini village, which is a vital government document, was missing from the records of the District Revenue Office.

He had also alleged in his application that the patwari of Peerubanda area was not making available the shajra (another revenue document) of the village. Mandeep Singh had questioned the process of identifying the location of a particular

land and conducting mutations (in the absence of important documents). He had alleged that, as per his information, the misappropriation of property in the village was being done by deliberately detaching important documents from the records.

Mandeep Singh had further claimed in his application to the SIC that land was being sold and purchased illegally by ‘unauthorised’ persons by showing a wrong location of the khasra numbers. The complainant also urged the state panel to register a case against the officers concerned for destroying essential government documents.

Earlier, the case was disposed of on March 3 this year when Ramesh Kapur, assistant project officer-cum-assistant public information officer (APIO) of the ADC (Development) office, had assured the commission that he will get the masavi of the village.

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