Vizagapatinam sources have stated that the city police arrested an absconding local Revenue department official from Hyderabad in connection with their investigation into the land scam. Meanwhile, according to the police, GL Ganeswara Rao, the Inspector of Survey, Rural Tehsildar Office, was arrested for allegedly tampering with the records of land located at Madhurawada, Pardesipalem and PM Palem areas so as to alienate about 356 acres of the government land as per an estimate.
Accordingly Rao, on the run for the last seven weeks, is the second person to be arrested in the case filed in Arilova police station here last month. The police had arrested local tehsildar M. Sankara Rao for allegedly tampering with the land records.
Meanwhile, Yoganand said though Rao was arrested by the ACB for allegedly amassing illegal assets in 2009, he managed to get a plum posting. Furthermore, when explaining the modus of operandi of Rao, the officer said, "After entering the names in the 1B register, Rao would enter into a sale agreement with those persons who are either his relatives or close to him. Later, he would go to Sub-Registrar's office for registering the deal". He said Rao in connivance with Tehsildar Sankar Rao has allegedly amassed crores.
