PROBE AGAINST REALTORS DUPING LOCALS
Lucknow police has launched a probe against realtors who are allegedly duping locals in Gomti Nagar and nearby areas of Lucknow in the name of allotting plot under government schemes.
According to senior police officials, the probe had been initiated after several FIRs were lodged at Gomti Nagar Police station in the matter. In the FIRs, people who have been duped by such realtors had allegedly that they were asked to invest money to get a plot on cheap rate under Prime Minister housing projects. The realtors also took money from gullible people promising them to double the investment within a year.
Such complaints have been lodged against a company named Career group real estate which has been active in Gomti Nagar area.
Anand Kumar Maurya and Ramakant Yadav two agents of the firm have also been named in the FIR. The firm is also not registered with RERA.
Representatives of Bhartiya Kisan Union have also given a memorandum to the deputy commissioner of police (East) Charu Nigam to conducts investigations into the matter. The group has alleged that the firm is harassing farmers to give up their lands in the area.
The alleged Hathras gangrape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit woman last month was the fallout of strained relations of her family with their upper caste neighbours for the last 20 years, suggests the report of a fact-finding team of social activists.
The nine-member team shared its findings during an online press conference on Tuesday.
The team included Narmada Bachchao Andolan activist Medha Patkar, Magsaysay awardee Sandeep Pandey, National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) activist and writer Mani Mala, advocate Ehtesham Hashmi, Faisal Khan from NAPM, Joe Athialy and Amit Kumar from Delhi Solidarity Group, Hansraj from Narmada Bachao Andolan and a student Anand Athialy.
The team visited the victim’s family in Hathras on October 9. In the press release, they said the relations between the victim’s family and their neighbouring Thakur family were strained ever since the former’s grandfather was attacked by the latter nearly 20 years ago.
The press release quoted the victim’s brother that the neighbouring Thakur family came into their field to graze their buffalos and attacked his grandfather when he raised objection. They said fingers of the victim’s grandfather were cut in the incident.
They said the victim’s family through her father was allotted 5 bigha land by the Mayawati’s government. However, till today they are in physical possession of only three and half bighas of land while the rest is apparently encroached upon by some Brahmin family. They have supplementary income from cattle rearing and selling of milk.
Moreover, the team said these atrocities, which were taking place across India, were a result of cumulative effect of caste and gender, inequality and injustice.
They said the intention behind the visit was also to raise a voice against the inhumanity and extend support to the victim’s family to fight the battle amidst feudal-casteist environs and politics.