Hyderabad: Hyderabad Central Crime Station sleuths probing the Rs 8,000 crore evacuee land scam has identified one D.K. Jain, a retired employee of the evacuee land custodian office in the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, as a key link to the arrested suspects. D.K. Jain, who is now 84 years old, appeared before CCS sleuths on Saturday with the help of his family. CCS investigators put questions to him regarding his role.
D.K. Jain was a former section officer at the MHA custodian office who is actually suspected to have sourced the claim on the evacuee land at Puppalaguda to the accused, sources said. On November 11 CCS arrested the key accused in the land scam identified as C.R. Laxminarayana, an advocate and the general power of attorney holder of the evacuee land.
A CCS source said, “We have tracked D.K. Jain to Delhi. The accused Laxminarayana confessed that it was D.K. Jain who helped to get to the source of the claim. Depending on evidence we will take further action.” In the CCS probe it was found that the GPA was forged in the name of the dead man. Bhagwandas Makhija died in 1995 and Laxminarayana obtained the GPA in 1996. CCS will take the case forward regarding the role of officials as pointed out by the High Court.
