Absconding official held in Bharatmala project land compensation scam in Chhattisgarh

RAIPUR: (Mar 18) The Anti-Corruption Bureau/Economic Offence Wing (ACB/EOW) of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday arrested a suspended revenue department official in the alleged Bharatmala road project compensation scam.


The agency had last year registered a case over an alleged fraud in demarcation, mutation, transfer of land ownership and other revenue processes in some villages of Abhanpur area during land acquisition for the Raipur-Visakhapatnam economic corridor in 2021-22. The fraud caused a loss of Rs 32 crore to the exchequer, it said.