A field security officer of Nandi Economic Corridor Enterprises Ltd. (NICE), has filed a complaint with the State police chief accusing the Byadarahalli Police of shielding land grabbers by refusing to register an FIR in a case of alleged Aadhaar forgery and encroachment, involving 79 acres of land in Kodigehalli village in Bengaluru North taluk.
C.A. Siddalingaiah, a retired police inspector, now working as a field security officer with NICE, submitted a representation to the Director-General and Inspector-General of Police, alleging gross dereliction of duty by the local police.
According to the complaint, land in Survey No. 86 was lawfully transferred to NICE by the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) for the Bengaluru–Mysuru Infrastructure Corridor Project (BMICP) through a government order issued in 1999, followed by a possession certificate in 2000 and a registered lease deed in 2002.
However, accused persons identified as K.V. Chandran, M.P. Devaraj, M.S. Prasad, M.S. Divya, and Krishne Gowda, allegedly fabricated ownership documents using a forged Aadhaar card and “bogus” land-grant records dating back to 1954–55. The complaint points out that one of the claimants, Chandran, was not even born at the time the grant was supposedly made.
