New Delhi : In yet another incident of irregularity concerning the illegal sale or transfer of government land worth crores of rupees in North Delhi, Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena has approved the initiation of major penalty proceedings and recommended to Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) for the suspension of Nitin Jindal (DANICS), then ADM (North) under the revenue department of the Government of Delhi, sources said on Friday .Saxena has been laying stress on complete probity in public dealings and "Zero Tolerance" to corruption.Jindal has been charged with illegally transferring the forest department land located in village Zindpur under North District to private individuals in March 2021.The Directorate of Vigilance, prima facie, found "grave misconduct" by the concerned officer, who willfully ignored established ownership of the land with the forest department, upheld time and again by different orders of the Financial Commissioner as well as the High Court and transferred the said land illegally on the basis of a much inferior additional district judge (ADJ) court for extraneous considerations, the sources said.
The matter pertains to the admission of an appeal under the Delhi Land Reforms (DLR) Act 1954, after 31 years. The appeal was initially being heard by the DM/Collector (North) being the appellate authority, but for some reason, Jindal, the then ADM (North) started hearing the matter with effect from February 2021, without any jurisdiction in the matter and thus violating the DLR Act.