BENGALURU — The Bangalore Development Authority held a solemn press conference Tuesday to congratulate itself on successfully uncovering a ₹100 crore land fraud that was meticulously planned, executed, and covered up by the Bangalore Development Authority.

The internal investigation revealed that in 2014, the agency graciously allotted prime alternative sites to a private individual who had previously rejected sites in the Arkavathy layout in 2012.

"We are deeply disturbed to learn what we did," said an authority spokesperson. "The culprits behind these illegal possession certificates were incredibly elusive, largely because they were sitting at our own desks during standard business hours."

The breakthrough marks a return to form for the agency, which has a rich history of investigating its own day-to-day operations. In 2020, officials discovered the department had prepared illegal allotment documents for 123 sites worth ₹1-2 crore each. The current FIR also links back to a former Assistant Commissioner previously arrested in the IMA scam, where an agency Executive Engineer accepted a ₹4 crore bribe in 2019.

"Our commitment to unearthing our own multi-crore scams years after they occur is absolute," the spokesperson added, approving a new stack of property registrations. "Once we finish investigating the 2014 allotments, we look forward to heroically discovering whatever it is we are doing today in 2030."