Friday, March 29, 2024

The truth of kite-flying by AAP on the alleged land scam by Janmabhoomi Trust: Facts





The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) came tip with an ingenuous claim on Sunday that the Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust was involved in a major land scam. 

The crux of their argument is that on a same day, in a matter of 15 minutes, a piece of land was sold for Rs 1 crores and then brought at 18.5 crores by the Trust. 

The truth is, one Kusum Pathak promised to sell her land to one Sultan Ansari for Rs 2 crores in 2019. The two executed an “agreement to sell”, due to be completed in three years time. In return, Ansari gave her Rs 50 lakhs in advance. 

After the Ram Janmabhoomi case was decided in favour of a Ram Temple, the Trust began acquiring lands nearby the janmabhoomi in order to give it a grandiose fruition. 

It wanted to buy the land in question but since the deal between Kusum and Ansari was incomplete, it asked the latter to complete the “sale deed” for the land to be deemed for consideration of its own purchase. 

Since the Supreme Court verdict, the land prices in Ayodhya have jumped four fold. 

This is what Forbes reported in 2019, quoting a property dealer: “The rates have increased up to six folds after the Supreme Court passed its verdict.”

The said property dealer had said in 2019 itself: “In a 4-km radius from the proposed Ram temple site, rates have tripled, from Rs 400 per square foot to Rs 1,200 per square foot”. This was within a month. Now that the temple’s completion in sight, it’s easy to imagine the spiralling land price. 

The truth is “agreement to sell” and “sale deed” are two different things. Kusum and Ansari had executed an “agreement to sell” in 2019. It became a “sale deed” on March 18, 2021. The same day Trust and Ansari has signed an “agreement to sell” for Rs 18.5 crores. It’s not a “sale deed” as such. It implies that the promised money is yet to be transferred over and not a scam already as AAP is alleging, and Rahul Gandhi is lapping up. 

The government rules say the sale can be done at only four times the circle rate. The circle rate for the property in question is Rs. 5.79 crore, as per AAP’s own estimate. The four-fold increase would make it worth Rs 23 crores. In fact, the Trust has got the property at less than the prevailing land rates. 


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