Noida, Aug 13 - A first information report was lodged against 15 officials of the Noida administration, including three Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, in a land allotment case, police said Thursday.

The complaint was lodged by Mukesh Srivastava, manager of industrial development, in the Noida authority late Wednesday.

In the complaint, Srivastava said that the IAS officers - Rakesh Bahadur, Sanjiv Saran, K. Ravendra Naik, Deo Dutt (retired) allotted 25 commercial plots to hotels at rates lower than the market rates. Srivastava alleged that because of the deals, the Noida authority incurred a loss of about Rs.4721 crore in 2006.

The other officers who have been named in the FIR are C.