Is Kamrup (M) DC office a safe custodian of origil land records?

Now will the proverbial ‘long arm of the law’ be able to cuff the ‘long hand’ that did the vanishing act of the important pages of the land record book by some sleight of hand? Guwahati is a city where land grabbers are out to grab land and mint money, no matter how. This is a place where the long arm of the law seems to be shorter.

By our Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI, May 15: With land grabbers being all-pervading, including ultimate land record custodian Kamrup (Metro) DC office, holders of landed property in Guwahati are in a real dicey situation. This is now official that important origil land records have gone missing from the Kamrup (M) DC office. If this is not the handiwork of someone privy to such documents, who else could have done this?

The sale deeds of lands bearing Nos. 6567/1968 and 4111/1957 have gone missing from the registration branch of Kamrup (Metro) DC office. ADC Bharat Bhushan Deva Choudhury did inquire into the disappearance of the documents and ask the deputy registrar to file a case. A case (121/15) has already been registered in Panbazar police station.

According to the FIR filed by the deputy registrar before the police, miscreants tore and took away important land records from the record room of sub-registrar, Kamrup (M). The missing documents, according to the FIR, are (1) Page No. ‘Ka’ of the Index I, year 1968, (2) page No. ‘Ja’ of the index II, year 1968, (3) pages from 129 to 132 of volume (book- 1) No. 59 of 1968 and (4) pages from 153 to 160 of volume (book 1) No. 26 of 1957.

The pages missing were related to the sale deeds bearing No. 6567/1968  and 4111/1957, and the lands are at Japorijog in the city.

It is not that someone in the DC office has discovered the missing of important land documents. The missing of documents came to the light only when Samedul Alam of AK Azad Road applied to see his origil land records. Following the application by Alam the officials concerned had to the check the record book only to discover that the important origil land records have gone missing. According to them, miscreants tore the pages from the book and took them away.

Now will the proverbial ‘long arm of the law’ be able to cuff the ‘long hand’ that did the vanishing act of the important pages of the land record book by some sleight of hand? Guwahati is a city where land grabbers are out to grab land and mint money, no matter how. This is a place where the long arm of the law seems to be shorter.