BENGALURU: Six men, including a case worker and a data-entry operator from Bangalore Development Authority (BDA), have been taken into police custody on charges of producing fake documents, bank challans and grabbing government sites in different parts of the city during an online auction in December 2021.
Seshadripuram police registered 18 FIRs based on complaints from BDA’s vigilance squad. The complaints accuse them of producing fake and forged documents to grab lands. According to the officers, the suspects mainly targeted sites in Sir M Visvesvaraya Layout, Arkavathi Layout, HBR Layout and Nadaprabhu Kempegowda Layout and areas in Anjanapura, Banashankari, JP Nagar and Nagarabavi. The accused are Lokesh Gowda, case worker, Suneel Kumar, data-entry operator, and Pavan Kumar, Vikram Jain, Manju Naik and Ramachandra.
“In December last year, BDA conducted an online auction of corner sites. The suspects changed the site numbers to be auctioned in these layouts by altering an online circular issued by BDA. ...The suspects include staffers from BDA, middlemen and others,” officials said.
