Gujarat HC rejects petition to quash FIR against two accused in Dumas land scam
Updated: Jan 9th, 2025
Gujarat High Court has rejected a petition filed by accused Naresh Shah, a partner at Samruddhi Corporation, and Anant Patel, a City Survey superintendent in Surat, seeking the quashing of the FIR against them in a property card scam case in Surat.
Shah and Patel had filed a petition in court requesting the quashing of the FIR related to the property card scam in Dumas, but the Gujarat High Court rejected their plea.
The High Court emphasised the seriousness of the case and stated that no relief could be granted to the accused.
Public prosecutor Hardik Dave argued in court that this is a very huge and serious scam in which Patel issued property cards without any biometric system. Patel had misused his position by failing to upload the required documents into the system and generating property cards without any proper verification.
Shah had introduced a ‘silent scheme,’ where no official registration took place, but using the scheme’s name on letterheads, he lured many people into investing in land and took money from them.
The prosecutor, based on these arguments, requested that the FIR not be quashed, and the High Court rejected the petition.
What was the incident?
A scam was unveiled involving a scheme named ‘Silent Zone’ after allegedly making bogus property cards of crores worth of farmer’s land of Dumas and Vata in Surat. CID Crime had registered a crime against the partners of Samruddhi Corporation and the officers-employees of the City Survey Superintendent Office.
According to CID Crime sources, Azad Ramoliya, a resident of Surat, owns Ignash Pvt Ltd in Hansot and is associated with agriculture.
Between October 28, 2016, and July 15, 2017, Azad purchased land in Dumas, including blocks 815, 801/2, 803, 804, 823, 787/2, and Vata’s block 61, from farmer Rasik of Magdalla, Surat.
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