Andhra Pradesh: Is SIT report on Vizag land scam gathering dust?

It was reportedly submitted to the government in September last

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) that had been constituted to inquire into the alleged land scam in the Port City reportedly submitted its second report in September last.

But, there has been no word on it from the government since then, which is raising doubts about the status of the report, and if it is gathering dust.

The report has not been put in public domain. There has been no action either on the persons named in the report. The State government has also not sought any clarifications on or modifications to the report.

Soon after coming to power in May 2019, Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy had ordered the constitution of a SIT to inquire into the alleged land scams not only in the city but also in Visakhapatnam district, and promised swift action against the land-grabbers.

The SIT, headed by former bureaucrats Vijay Kumar and Y.V. Anuradha, and former District and Sessions Judge T. Bhaskara Rao, had taken up investigation in October/ November 2019.

Later, the SIT was strengthened with the induction of former bureaucrat K. Durganand Prasad Rao, the then Commissioner of Police Rajeev Kumar Meena, and the then Chief Conservator of Forest (Visakhapatnam) Rahul Pandey.

It had submitted its first interim report to the State government in the first week of February in 2020.