Ranchi: Many land documents were stolen from the record room located in the Collectorate premises. The thieves committed the crime by breaking the grill of the window behind the record room. It is feared that the stolen documents include records ranging from 114 to 164 years old. When the employees opened the door of the record room on Thursday morning, they came to know about the incident. The employees noticed that the locks of four cupboards kept in the record room were open. Also many documents are scattered on the ground. After talking among themselves, the employees informed the senior officials about the incident. After receiving the information, the police reached the spot and started investigating the case at 1:00 pm. The police also called the FSL team to the spot to collect samples of fingerprints. Here, after receiving information about the theft, a large number of people started reaching the collectorate.
Documents from the British era to the present time were kept:
According to old employees, in the record room there were records of many lands from the British era to the present time, apart from lands of other nature including tribal lands. For this reason the old records were kept on the shelves. According to sources, the documents of the year 1932 kept here have been scanned, but the records of the year 1910 and 1860 were not scanned. Among them there are Khatians of Bhuihari land also.
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Case registered regarding theft incident in record room:
Ranchi’s Kotwali police station has registered a case against an unknown person on the complaint of in-charge sub-collector Smriti Kumari regarding the incident of theft in the record room of the collectorate. She told the police that after getting information about the incident, she had reached the District Archives at 11:00 am on Thursday. There he found that all the shelves were open. Besides, the lock of the strong room was also broken. Looking there it appeared that an attempt had been made to obtain and tamper with a government document.
questions arising
ED investigation:
Currently ED is investigating many land related cases. In such a situation, to avoid the ED, have the old documents been stolen from the record room in a planned manner, so that the original land documents do not fall into the hands of the ED during the investigation?
Security arrangements:
The theft must have taken place between Wednesday night and Thursday morning. After the work in the Collectorate premises is over, the gates are closed from both sides at night. Soldiers are also deployed for security. In such a situation, why did the soldiers not get information about the theft incident?
रिकॉर्ड रूम से महत्वपूर्ण दस्तावेज और खतियान की चोरी होने के संबंध में प्राथमिकी दर्ज करा दी गयी है. पुलिस विभिन्न बिंदुओं पर मामले की जांच करेगी. रिकॉर्ड रूम में कौन-कौन से दस्तावेज रखे गये थे और क्या गायब हुआ है, इसकी जानकारी मिलने पर नियमसंगत कार्रवाई की जायेगी.
राहुल कुमार सिन्हा, डीसी रांची