Mumbai: Shiv Sena’s controversial minister Sanjay Sirsat has as soon as once more discovered himself on the centre of the Maharashtra controversy. This time we’re combating allegations of “fraud” on the land.
Rohit Pawar of the Nationalist Congress Social gathering (Sharadchandra Pawar) accused him of bypassing the principles and handing over town and the Industrial Growth Company Land (CIDCO) to the heirs of the Vivalkar household, who has held the goal of the land for over two centuries.
In line with the NCP (SP) MLA, Navi Mumbai’s plot is at present rated at Rs 5,000 and was reserved for housing for the poor, however Shirsat is claimed to have handed out this parcel of land to the Bivalkar household.
The parcel of land has been in lawsuit for years because the 2014 Bombay Excessive Court docket accepted the possession of the Vivalkar household and directed CIDCO to supply compensation.
Maharashtra government-owned CIDCO is named one of the best city planning and growth company. Shirsat grew to become CIDCO Chairman in 2024.
Initially from Ratnagiri and now settled in Pune, the Vivalkar household was stated to have been given to Coraba (now Leigad) about 4,000 acres of land in 1816 by Laguji Angle, who managed the previous state of Coraba.
In line with Pawar, the household obtained a parcel of land to help the British in opposition to the Malatha Empire.
“The household tried to allocate the land, however regardless of repeated makes an attempt, the household’s claims had been rejected. Sahebignoring all norms, pulling again greater than 15 acres,” Pawar instructed the media.
“The simply distribution of the poor was given to heirs of those that as soon as sided with the ability of the colony. We ask that the federal government reclaim this land, which has been illegally given to households, and that the federal government asks to resign Shasat.”
Final month, the Minister of Social Justice was early within the information after he was instructed he was smoking whereas a broadly shared video was sitting in his mattress and a bag stuffed with foreign money was close by.
Print reached Shirsat over the cellphone for remark. This report is up to date when and when a response is obtained. Cidco Professional Priya Ratambe declined to touch upon the allegations in opposition to Cidco and the Minister.
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Authorized muddy
Yashwant Bivalkar, who dragged Cidco to court docket over compensation for the 157-acre parcel, petitioned that his nice grandfather had turn out to be distinguished within the 1700s when Kanhoji Angre, the then ruler, led the Malaza Navy.
Coraba was annexed by the British in 1840, however the land stayed with Vivalkar after independence. In truth, it nonetheless held property even after the Bombay’s Private Abolition Act was enacted on August 1, 1953.
Subsequently, based on the contract dated January 21, 1959, based on the Official Gazette of October 21, 1959, administration of “non-public forest areas” between Coraba Collectors and Vivalkar below the Indian Forest Act was handed over to the Forest Service as “reserved forests” below sure circumstances.
The title was not offered since then. In 1960, Bivalkars saved their property by bringing it below the Bombay Court docket of Wards Act.
On February 3, 1970, a discover was issued below the Land Acquisition Act, which introduced that deliberate growth and use of land in Trans Harbor, Panbell and Trans Creek areas is more likely to be obligatory for industrial, business and residential functions.
Three years later, the Maharashtra authorities directed that the land would stop to turn out to be “protected forests” from the date of notification and promote relocation to CIDCO for deliberate growth of the area. Roughly 150 acres of land had been used for this function.
In 1985, Vivalkar argued that compensation needs to be below the Land Acquisition Act, not the Forest Act. 4 years later, their possession was supported, however compensation was granted below the Forest Act on 157 acres of land. Yashwant’s mom, Indirabai Bivalkar, challenged the order in Bombay Excessive Court docket in search of compensation below the Land Acquisition Act.
The land has since been caught up in authorized points. In line with the HC, possession of the Bivalkar household was not questioned till 2010. On September 17, 2010, Cidco filed a petition declaring that Bivalkars was not the proprietor, however that the property was finally granted to the federal government and transferred to Cidco.
Second, the HC acknowledged the federal government’s place that Vivalkar was the landowner till 2014 and is its personal proper. Additionally they ordered CIDCO to pay compensation, however didn’t cease the land from getting used at Navi Mumbai Worldwide Airport, requested by Cidco, the node’s company that implements the airport challenge.
CIDCO challenged the order within the Supreme Court docket in 2015, and the Apex Court docket stayed within the HC Order.
What the oppn MLA says
In line with Rohit Pawar, Bivalkars have approached CIDCO a number of instances since 1990, acquiring land allocations below a 12.5% scheme raised by CM Sharad Pawar and native leaders for the event of the land sons.
Beneath this scheme, applied in 1994, CIDCO allocates 12.5% of the developed land to the affected particular person (PAP) rather than the land acquired.
Nonetheless, Cidco is claimed to have rejected their software as a result of they don’t seem to be land cultivators. The newest requests had been made in 2023. This was rejected once more, citing the difficulty as subjudice, based on a replica of a letter from Cidco that Print noticed.
Nonetheless, in 2024, via the city growth sector, Cidco was requested to present parcels to households, Pawar argued.
When Silsat grew to become chairman of CIDCO in September 2024, he allotted about 15 acres of land to his household a few month earlier than the mannequin’s Code of Conduct started, he additional argued.
The land is for the poor, and it’s doable that round 80-10,000 homes have been constructed for the locals whereas asserting the protest on the Cidco workplace in Navi Mumbai on Wednesday.
(edited by Tony Rye)
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