Civil Servant Blackmailed Into Whitewashing Illegal Land Deals

The sources said information collected during illegal surveillance was used to facilitate multi-crore land scams through the Dharani portal and secure high-value land settlements in the Rangareddy district.

The sources said prime accused and former SIB chief T. Prabhakar Rao was directed to gather intelligence on persons involved in land disputes to force them into settlements. They also said that BRS leader K. Kavitha had previously cautioned a former minister from Nalgonda about the digital footprints being left behind by these operations.

The sources said the SIT had secured specific survey numbers in Rangareddy district where land titles were allegedly altered overnight on the Dharani portal, and the Enforcement Directorate had collected the data for its own probe under the PMLA.

“The scale of the irregularities is staggering,” a source in the SIT told Deccan Chronicle.

The former district collector is under the scanner of Central agencies over his alleged links with certain land deals. Some of these cases are also being heard in the Telangana High Court.