One more held in fake property registration case

After the Vigilance Bureau (VB), Ludhiana, registered a case against nine individuals for fraudulently executing the sale deed of a 14 kanal land in Ludhiana belonging to an NRI residing in the USA, using forged documents and arrested advocate Gurcharan Singh, the VB is likely to start Disproportionate Assets (DA) inquiry against the tehsildar west, Jagsir Singh Saran, who executed the registration of land worth crores without verifying facts. Interestingly, the registration of the land was executed at Rs 30 lakh. However, the land was having a market value of Rs 6 crore.

Meanwhile, the Vigilance Bureau on Thursday claimed to have made the second arrest in the case. The nabbed suspect was identified as realtor Gurjot Singh, owner of Landmark Real Estate. Gurjot was nominated in the case as the tenth accused as he was not nominated in the initial FIR.

Now, raids were being conducted to nab the remaining eight suspects, including tehsildar Jagsir. He was reportedly gone underground.

Gurjot was produced in a court on Thursday which sent him to one-day police custody for investigation.

An official of the Vigilance Bureau told The Tribune here on Monday that “Recently when a case was registered against nine individuals, including the tehsildar, the police had also conducted a raid at the house of the tehsildar in Ajit Villas, South City, and reportedly recovered some important documents. The VB have the information that he had gathered properties more than known sources of his income”.

The official said some properties of the tehsildar were already zeroed in on by the VB during it’s ongoing probe and records of the same were being obtained. The VB will also scan the properties bought by tehsildar in the name of his wife, other family members and relatives.

Sources even said records of old property registrations done by the tehsildar were also likely to be checked as the Vigilance suspects that property registrations were done at low value by ignoring the market value.

Earlier, the case was registered against tehsildar Jagsir Singh Saran, buyer Deepak Goel, namberdar Baghel Singh, registry clerk Krishan Gopal, advocate Gurcharan Singh, Amit Gaur, a computer operator, property dealer Raghbir Singh and a person posing as land owner Deep Singh.