BHOPAL: To repay a mortgage of Rs 20 lakh, a sarpanch in MP’s Guna district allegedly struck a deal, ‘leasing out’ her panchayat to an area particular person with the situation that he would repay the mortgage.It was then ‘handed over’ to a 3rd particular person via a notarised affidavit. When information of this reached the administration, the sarpanch, Laxmi Bai, was dismissed on Could 9.Each panchayat is allotted a price range to hold out improvement works in its space with the sarpanch holding the purse strings. The weird notarised deal was inked in 2022 for Karod panchayat on the outskirts of Guna, round 220km from Bhopal, officers stated.Following an investigation by the Guna subdivisional Justice of the Peace, district panchayat officers lodged a police grievance. Police filed an FIR towards Ranveer Singh Kushwaha, a resident of the world who allegedly took over the panchayat after assuring to repay the sarpanch’s alleged mortgage after which ‘handed it over’ to a 3rd particular person.
Adetailed probe was carried out following a grievance after which motion was taken towards the sarpanch and the one that was concerned within the take care of her, Guna district panchayat CEO Abhishek Dubey confirmed to TOITuesday. Since panchayat elections had been held in 2022, there have been allegations that the mortgage was taken by Laxmi Bai to contest the polls, however this isn’t talked about within the FIR. Denying the costs, sarpanch’s husband, Shankar Singh, informed TOI on cellphone: “We’ve not taken any cash from anybody.Laxmi Bai has been faraway from the put up.”TOI has a replica of the FIR, which says Ranveer executed the take care of the sarpanch via an affidavit on a Rs 100 stamp paper, which was notarised. “Examination of the photocopy… makes it clear that an settlement was made between sarpanch Laxmi Bai and Ranveer for conducting the works of the gram panchayat…,” the FIR says. Nonetheless, the FIR doesn’t specify what ‘TS price’ is.