Hyderabad: Karkhana police in a recent case has busted a gang of six land grabbers who forged land documents to grab the land of a retired colonel, said S. Rashmi Perumal, DCP North Zone, in a press meet on Wednesday. The accused identified as Ubaid Bin Mohammed, 50, resident of Edi Bazar, Shaik Rauf Pasha, 39, resident of Bownepally, Rathakanth Sainath, 64, of Banswada, Mohd. Abid, 48, resident of Nizamabad, Shaik Amid, 40, of Rasool Pura, Banoth Bheem Singh, 49, resident of Banswada. “We received a complaint from a retired Col Voleti Krishna Rao (87) stating that he owns 450 sq. yards of land in Gunrock Enclave Cooperative Housing Society by a registered sale deed dated back to 1982, Rashmi said.
At that time there was no mandatory procedure for taking photographs/biometric authentication for registration. Taking advantage of this, the accused who are real estate brokers, conspired to grab lands with forged documents of such older registered lands. In their search, the land grabbers could notice the land of the complainant who was a senior citizen and who was frequently travelling to Chennai.
To create a forged document, they engaged accused Sainath, who is closer to the age of the retired colonel and forged his Aadhar identity with his name Krishna Rao. The accused further engaged their co-accused pretending to be a buyer and the other two accused as witnesses for the execution of the deed, DCP said.
Accordingly, accused Ubaid Bin Mohammed and Shaik Rauf Pasha got registered the land of the complainant in the name of their co-accused Mohammed Abid through AGP No. 821/2024 dated May 10, this year. Through accused Sainath pretending to be the owner of the land, the land gang had a clear intention to grab the land of Col. Voleti Krishna Rao (Rtd), Karkhana police came to know during the investigation, explained the DCP.
The accused were arrested on Wednesday and the illegal sale document was cancelled after due intimation to Sub-Registrar giving much relief to the complainant.
Open plots must be fenced with a boundary wall and frequent visits to the property must be taken up along with sufficient identification of the owner in the form of name boards to be set up. Any information on such land-grabbing activities must be intimated to local police as soon as possible, the DCP added.
