Archive · 25 Sep 2026
Madhya Pradesh Official Suspended After 51 Properties Found Recorded
A government land official in Madhya Pradesh was suspended.
Officials found 51 property records connected to him and his wife.
Forty-eight properties were listed under Rajesh Mandloi’s name.
Three were listed under his wife Manisha’s name.
Some properties were public or shared spaces in a village.
These included an area with a stepwell and a bus-stand platform.
The records were checked under a government land-rights program.
The issue became public earlier this week.
More than 50 properties were recorded in the names of Khandwa revenue official Rajesh Mandloi and his wife.
Records showed 48 properties in Mandloi’s name and three in his wife Manisha’s name.
The properties included shared village spaces, a stepwell area, and a platform at a bus stand.
The records were identified during scrutiny under Madhya Pradesh’s Swamitva land-rights scheme.
Mandloi was suspended earlier this week after the matter came to light.
- Who
- Rajesh Mandloi, a revenue official, and his wife Manisha.
- What
- Fifty-one properties were found recorded in their names, and Mandloi was suspended.
- When
- The matter came to light earlier this week.
- Where
- Khandwa district, Madhya Pradesh.
- Why
- The records were identified during scrutiny under the Swamitva land-rights scheme.
- Official
- Rajesh Mandloi
- Former posting
- Patwari in Kolgaon
- Total properties
- 51
- Properties in Mandloi’s name
- 48
- Properties in Manisha’s name
- 3
- Discovery process
- Scrutiny under the Swamitva land-rights scheme
- Administrative action
- Mandloi was suspended