Four Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) officials, including a deputy secretary, are being questioned for their alleged role in an illegal site allotment scam. Their role came to light after the BDA Task Force and the police, on Friday afternoon, carried out a raid on a private office on Cunningham Road where illegal site allotment letters were being prepared.
According to officials, the raid took place at the office of Redhan – The Cinema People. Police investigating the case said they have detained the owner of the office, Inder Kumar, who was present at the time of the raid.
BDA Commissioner H.R. Mahadev told The Hindu that the accused officials were planning to prepare site allotment documents for 123 sites in various layouts formed by the BDA. “They had already printed allotment letters for 60 sites. An entire team was involved in the scam,” he said, and identified the accused as Deputy Secretary Shive Gowda, tahsildar Kamalamma and clerks Sampath Kumar and Pavithra,…