Hyderabad, May 31: The Cyberabad Police have arrested two more accused in the alleged Rs 1,000 crore land racket involving forged government records and fake Government Orders used to encroach and sell valuable government land in Gandipet.
Police identified the arrested persons as Veladi Radhakrishna and his driver, Gyara Praveen Kumar. They have been named as accused numbers nine and ten in the case.
The case was registered at Narsingi Police Station on May 23 following a complaint filed by Srinivas Reddy, Tahsildar of Gandipet Mandal in Rangareddy district.
According to police, the accused allegedly created fake Government Orders and fabricated official documents to facilitate the illegal sale of 10 acres of government land in Gandipet. The land is estimated to be worth nearly Rs 1,500 crore.
On May 29, Cyberabad Police announced the arrest of three persons and claimed to have uncovered a large-scale land fraud network valued at around Rs 1,000 crore.
Cyberabad Deputy Commissioner of Police C.H. Srinivas said Radhakrishna had worked as an outsourcing employee in the Information Technology and Communication Department of the Andhra Pradesh Secretariat between 2006 and 2009.
After leaving the job, he allegedly used his knowledge of government procedures to deceive people by claiming he could secure government jobs, land regularisation orders, pattadar passbooks, succession proceedings and other official permissions.
Police said that in 2013, Radhakrishna allegedly impersonated a Deputy Collector and advocate and collected around Rs 30 lakh from unemployed individuals by promising them government jobs.
Several accused are still absconding in the case. Among them is Bolla Brahma Naidu, a former MLA of the YSR Congress Party.
Investigators are continuing efforts to trace the remaining accused and uncover the full extent of the alleged land fraud network.
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