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Encroachment: “papers being tampered with”

Bangalore: The exposure of big names by the Joint Legislature Committee in connection with encroachment of 45,000 acres of Government land in Bangalore Urban district has begun to create political ripples.

Congress leader V.S. Ugrappa and others of the party on Friday accused former chairperson of the committee, A.T. Ramaswamy, and other officers concerned of “trying to tamper with documents” in an effort to “malign political opponents, especially the Congress.”

Mr. Ramaswamy denied the allegation as “baseless” and said that it was “impossible to tamper with the documents” as copies of it were in the possession of the departments.

The names of the members of the Late Gundu Rao’s family had figured prominently in the list of encroachers.

The drama began on Friday evening when Mr. Ugrappa confronted Mr. Ramaswmay and the committee’s special officer K. Narasimhaiah in the Vidhana Soudha and accused them of trying to tamper with the committee’s findings “beyond office hours.” He said the committee had no locus standi after it was wound up following the dissolution of the Assembly. It was now the business of the secretary concerned to do the needful.

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