Lawyer among nine booked for forging property papers in Amritsar

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, September 10

The Vigilance Bureau (VB) has booked nine persons, including a lawyer, a deed writer and a stamp vendor for allegedly forging property documents and selling the same. They were booked following a complaint filed by Rajinder Kaur, a resident of Gurnam Nagar, on Sultanwind Road.

Those booked have been identified as Malkeet Singh of Jaspal Nagar, Manpreet Singh of Kot Mit Singh, Advocate Mangat Ram Silli, a resident of New Golden Avenue, Bikramjit Singh alias Happy, Raobarinder Singh alias Lucky of Patti Mansoor ki, Sultanwind village, Jagsharan Singh of New Janta Colony, Deepak Sharma of Tehsil Complex and Ashwani Kumar (deed writer), a resident of Guru Nanak Pura in Kot Khalsa.

The VB arrested Deepak Sharma while the remaining accused were still on the run. The complainant said she owned 3 kanal and 3 marlas. She said she sold 3 marlas to Bikramjit Happy, Raobarinder Singh, Malkeet Singh and Manpreet Singh.

In December 2018, she came to know that the accused had fraudulently sold her 63 marlas to Jarnail Singh of Sultanwind village, Amandeep Singh of Deen Dayal Colony, Verka and Davinder Singh of Sultanwind village.

The VB sleuths revealed that that the accused fraudulently changed the figure 3 marlas to 63 marlas in the documents by prefixing 6. A case under Sections 420, 465, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B of the IPC was registered against the accused.

Six booked for murder bid

The Khalchian police have booked six persons on charges of firing and murder bid. The incident took place three days ago, but a complaint was lodged on Thursday.

Those booked have been identified as Harjinder Singh, Gurnam Singh, German Singh, Joban Singh, all residents of Sidhwan village, Gurjant Singh and Balraj Singh, both residents of Kammoke village, Beas.

Rajwinder Kaur, a resident of Wadala Kalan village, told the police that on July 31, Harjinder had a quarrel with her father-in-law following which her husband (Jasbir Singh) pushed him out of the house. She said on the same day, the accused gathered outside their house, and started hurling abuses. She said the accused also pelted stones at their house, besides firing several gun shots in the air.

She said three days ago, her husband was present at his shop when six unknown persons with their faces covered thrashed him brutally and fled away on two motorcycles.

A case under Sections 307, 336, 148, 149, 120-B of the IPC and Sections 25, 27, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act has been registered against the accused.