Bijnor : Two persons were arrested by UP Police in Bijnor for allegedly conspiring to usurp 2.2 hectares (about 26-bigha) of agricultural land belonging to former Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath by using a forged death certificate and fake will of his late father, Mahendra Nath.
429”. Bijnor SP, Krishna Kumar Bishnoi, said on Friday: “Following a complaint by Kamal Nath, a resident of MP’s Chhindwara, over phone at Najibabad thana on Sept 30, an FIR was lodged against four persons. Nath’s father died in 2004, but the fake death certificate listed the year as 2003, according to police.
In the complaint, Nath alleged that local residents Dharmapal Singh of Mahawatpur Billoch, Jasbinder Singh Dhillon of Amikhanpur, Vijay Shankar Pandey of Shyamli (Najibabad) areas along with lekhpal David Kumar and few others conspired to take away his father’s land bearing “gata No. The alleged discrepancy is now a key part of the complaint. Two of them, Dharmapal and Vijay Shankar, were held on Thursday evening.
Nath’s father owned around 90 bighas in Ami Khanpur village under Bijnor’s Najibabad tehsil.
Officials then found the land was already involved in a “dispute”. The ex-CM reportedly approached Najibabad tehsildar in May of this year to get the land registered as part of his inheritance. It was subsequently allegedly discovered that the accused prepared a forged will purportedly in his late father’s name and produced the documents before court with intention of taking control of the property.
Notably, the case was registered under BNS 61 (2) (criminal conspiracy), 318 (4) (dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 338 (forgery of valuable security, a will…), 336 (3) (forgery committed for cheating) and 340 (2) (dishonestly using a forged document or electronic record as genuine). Dharmapal has two past cases against him at Bijnor in 2016, police said, adding that further investigation is underway to find the role of others in the latest case. You Can Also Check: Gold Rate in Meerut | Silver Rate in Meerut | Bank Holidays in Meerut | Public Holidays in Meerut | Meerut AQI | Weather in Meerut | Petrol Price in Meerut | Diesel Price in Meerut | CNG Price in Meerut | LPG Price in Meerut Stay updated with the latest Meerut news.
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