Ex-tahsildar in trouble for illegal land allotment

According to DVAC records, management of Pakkruli Pasumpon Arul Aacini Trust’s higher secondary school in Ambattur had petitioned the government seeking land for running the school in 1993. Considering the request, a plot measuring 2,050 square metres was allotted to the trust, with the condition that it should be used only for running the school, and not to be given on lease, rent, mortgage or sale. The land is now worth more than Rs 50 lakh.

However, despite the mandatory stipulation, U Arivaruliyar, the managing director of the trust, entered into a lease agreement for 33 years from June, 2015 to May, 2048, with Ravindra Bharathi Educational Society of Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, to run a CBSE school in the name of Ravindra Bharathi Global School for a monthly rent of Rs 4,300. The society took possession of the land and constructed a building to run Narayana e-Techno School, alleged DVAC. 

As part of the plan, a cancellation deed was registered in August 2015 to make it appear as if the lease deed that was already registered stood cancelled and that there was no violation of lease condition. Even after this, Arivaruliyar managed to obtain building license in August 2016 from T Balamurugan, who was Ambattur tahsildar between September 2015 and August 2016, even though Narayana e-Techno School has been functioning at the premises till date, said the FIR that the anti-corruption agency filed. 

Charging that Balamurugan’s role constituted a suspected case of corruption, a case was registered against him and Arivaruliyar under the provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.