FIR against Congress MLA for ‘illegal’ plot allotment in 2004; he says fake case

Bhopal: The Economic Offence Wing of the Madhya Pradesh police on Wednesday filed a first information report against deputy leader of Opposition in the state assembly and Congress MLA Hemant Katare and his family members along with officials of the Bhopal Development Authority in connection with alleged fraud in allotment of plots under Inter-State Bus Terminal Scheme in Bhopal. M/s High Speed Motors’ partners Hemant Katare, Yogesh Katare and others benefited in an improper manner without tender, it said. “EOW received a complaint through General Administration Department regarding illegal benefit given to M/s High Speed Motors in connection with land allotment by colluding with officials of Bhopal Development Authority in allotment of plots in Kushabhau Thackeray Inter-State Bus Terminal Scheme in May 2015. On thorough investigation, it was found that BDA had allotted a plot to M/s High Speed Motors, whose partners were Yogesh Katare, Hemant Katare and others, in an illegal manner and the land use of the said plot was also changed in an illegal manner to make it commercial and even the price of the allotted plot was determined with the aim of providing undue benefit to M/s High Speed Motors without tender, said Upendra Jain, Director General, EOW.