VAO’s office at Uruvaiyar ransacked

Miscreants torched documents relating to land ownership

The files stored in the VAO office were torchedby miscreants.

Unidentified persons broke into the Village Administrative Office at Uruvaiyar near Villianur on Tuesday midnight and torched documents and challans relating to land ownership.

The VAO’s office has been functioning in a small room on the four roads in Uruvaiyar with Village Administrative Officers Sundaresan Rao and Paranthaman catering to six villages of Uruvaiyar, Perungalur, Mangalam, Thirukanji, Manakuppam and Sathamangalam from the same premises.

Police sources said miscreants broke open the window of the office and after entering it they ransacked the cupboard containing land documents and challans of Uruvaiyar, Perungalur, Mangalam, Thirukanji, Manakuppam and Sathamangalam.

The accused collected the documents and set them on fire in a dilapidated Integrated Child Development Centre (ICDS) building and dumped a few files outside the building.

The incident came to light when Sundaresan Rao and Paranthaman came to the office on Wednesday morning. Mr. Paranthaman said that files including land ownership documents, daily collection and challan register of Uruvaiyar, Perungalur and Mangalam were completely burnt while other files were partially burnt.

They lodged a complaint with the Mangalam police. Finger print experts visited the office and took finger prints from the office and from the ICDS building where the files were burnt.

Senior revenue officials are trying to ascertain the exact files which were burnt and are sorting out papers they managed to recover from the ICDS centre and outside the VAO office. A case has been registered and further investigations are on.