Five booked for bid to grab land in Yavatmal

Yavatmal: Awadhootwadi police have on Sunday booked five persons who allegedly conspired to grab a piece of land situated in prime commercial area of the city.
According to complainant Syed Habibul Hassan Kadri, a plot bearing survey No.24/1 along with an old British era bungalow thereon belonged to one lawyer Kazi Syed Karimoddin. After his demise, names of Kazi’s descendants were added in the revenue records. One of the sons of late Kazi is in UK and another stays in Nagpur.
The said property was lying deserted for quite sometime. One Manoj Pandurang Patil, a resident of Kathoda village in Arni tehsil, claimed that his grandfather Shivram Vithoba Patil had purchased the property from Kazi. On the basis of an alleged fabricated will executed by Shivram Patil in his name, Manoj obtained property card after allegedly conspiring with land records officials.
In 2019, Manoj registered a sale deed in Yavatmal sub-registrar’s office for selling the property for Rs1.42 crore, of which he had received Rs2 lakh and the remaining Rs1.40 crore to be paid in two instalments in 2021 and 2022, against which he had received two post dated cheques.
After Kazi’s son residing in Nagpur came to know of the deal, he authorized one Syed Habibul Hassan Kadri, a resident of Ahbab Colony in Nagpur, to take legal action against Manoj and others.
Hassan lodged a complaint with Awadhootwadi police following which five persons namely Manoj Pandurang Patil, Sakharam Janardhan Deodhare, Iftekhar Khan Gulab Khan, Alamgir Jahangir Khan Pathan, all residents of Digras, and Himmat Namdevrao Nagmode, a resident of Selu in Arni, have been booked under sections 420, 465, 467, 471, 120 B and 34 of Indian Penal Code.
SP M Rajkumar told TOI that the accused have been asked to produce all documents and further action would be taken after verifying the papers.