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Uttar Pradesh: Kamlapati Tripathi’s grandson, kin booked in land scam in Mirzapur

Uttar Pradesh: Kamlapati Tripathi’s grandson, kin booked in land scam in Mirzapur
VARANASI: Former chief minister and Congress stalwart late Kamlapati Tripathi’s grandson and ex-MLC Rajeshpati Tripathi, great-grandson and ex-MLA Laliteshpati Tripathi and 40 others have been booked for allegedly grabbing 132 acres of land in the name of a cooperative society in Manihan area of Mirzapur district.
Rajeshpati, Laliteshpati and some other members of the clan have been booked in the case as they are the legal successors of Kamlapati’s son late Lokpati Tripathi, who was one of the 17 core members of the said society.

Giving this information, assistant commissioner & assistant registrar (cooperative) Mirzapur Mitrasen Verma said: “A high-level probe in the lands transferred to cooperative societies had been launched following the Umbha incident of 2019 in which 11 people had been killed over a land dispute. In this connection, the revenue department investigated the land transferred to Gopalpur Sanyukt Krishi Sahkari Samiti Limited in Manihan area. The probe report was produced before the state government which ordered the Mirzapur district magistrate to initiate legal action.”
“As the matter belonged to my department, the DM forwarded the report to me after which I lodged a FIR with the Manihan police station on June 15,” he added.
Station officer (SO) Manihan Rajkumar Singh said, “The FIR was registered under sections 419 (cheating by personation), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 467 (forging document), 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating) and 471 (fraudulently or dishonestly uses as genuine document) of IPC.”
“Police investigation in this case has been started. It is a very old case. Therefore, collection and verification of documentary evidence is a lengthy process as it has to be collected from many districts. Besides, many related issues are also under litigation,” he added.

The probe report in this case recommended successors of the primary members, who are not alive, should be booked for committing fraud and misleading courts and officials concerned by Gopalpur Sahkari Krishi Samiti Limited. "The lists of 17 primary members and their 42 legal successors of the samiti (society) was provided to the probe committee by samiti’s secretary Baijnath Singh. This list contained the names of former minister and Rajeshpati Tripathi’s father late Lokpati Tripathi, Mandavi Prasad Singh and others,” the report stated.
The report further stated that land pooling after formation of the samiti was not as per law while in 1961, when ADJ and other courts were informed that samiti has 105 members, no land pooling was done by them except for 17 core members. Also, undue advantage was taken by producing confusing information about 105 members by the managing committee of the samiti. Membership given to people from other states was also illegal.
“The report also contains that sale of 132.6 acre land to a food park limited by samiti’s deputy chairman Rajeshpati Tripathi in September 2016 and further deal in 2018 was done without seeking permission from the authority concerned and overlooking prescribed rules. Terming the managing committee, core members and their successors as guilty, legal action was recommended,” said Verma.
Kamlapati Tripathi was UP chief minister between April 1971 and June 1973. He was also a four-time MP, thrice elected to Rajya Sabha and once to Lok Sabha. He had also served as UP Congress Committee chief and as acting president of the All India Congress. For decades, the Tripathi family remained dominant in the east UP region. Rajeshpati was also appointed party’s state election manager in 2016. Laliteshpati was a Congress MLA from Marihan assembly seat in Mirzapur, a seat from which Rajeshpati had contested unsuccessfully in 2007.
Congress has termed the FIR lodged against the Tripathi family members a “political vendetta”. Though the Tripathis could not be contacted despite repeated efforts, former minister and senior Congress leader Ajay Rai claimed that as Laliteshpati had intensified protest against the killing of 11 innocent persons in Umbha after which the party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also intervened, the state government was targeting him.
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