Friday, 13 OCTOBER 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Thursday arrested the 16th accused in the Dehradun land registry fraud case on charges of selling the Defense Ministry’s land at Majra along with land in the Clement Town area by making fake deeds. He sold both lands to 11 people and earned over Rs three crore, claimed Dehradun senior superintendent of police Ajai Singh. Addressing the media, he said that the police came to know about this fraud during the investigation of the land registry scams. The accused identified as Mohammad Humayun Parvez (50) from Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor was found to be connected in the scam of selling 2,500 yards of land in Majra and about 55 bighas land situated between Turner Road and Subhash Nagar Chowk in Clement Town. The SIT arrested him on Thursday. He revealed during interrogation that he made the fake deeds with the help of the arrested accused Mohammad Sameer Kamyab and placed them in the registrar’s office in 2016-17 with the help of a man in the record room. Singh said that Parvez had mentioned Jalilu Rehman and Abdul Karim as the owners of the said lands in the fake deeds and registered them in the name of 11 people in 2109 and 2020. He received about Rs three crore in his bank account from this scam, alleged SSP. He said that the accused made the fake deeds from the original deed of 1958. The said lands were owned by Lala Sarnimal and Maniram but the accused in the case showed some other people as real owners. “They also sent an application for demarcation of these lands to the sub divisional magistrate office and the Uttarakhand High Court. However the demarcation proceedings were rejected as the 55 acres of land in Majra was transferred to the Defense Ministry by the then district magistrate in 1958 and it is still in the ministry’s possession,” said Singh.
