RAJKOT: Two persons were booked under the new land grabbing act in Rajkot on Monday for illegally selling government land to a farmer in Mota Mava.
An executive magistrate lodged a complaint to police after the farmer, Ashwin Parsana, wrote to the district administration alleging fraud.
Police said that the two accused Ketan Vora and Bahadursinh Chauhan approached Parsana a year ago asking him if he would like to own the government land right beside his five-acre farm. The duo forged documents and revenue records including appointment and revenue letters, gazette notification, payment challans among others to allot the land to Parsana. They took Rs 73 lakh in different amounts from him for the land.
Parsana, however, became suspicious recently about the duo and submitted an application to the district administration. Authorities realized that Parsana had been cheated by Vora and Chauhan as the revenue records suggested that no order was made to allot the land to Parsana.
Based on the executive magistrate K M Kathiriya’s complaint an offence of cheating, forgery and The Gujarat Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act was registered against Vora and Chauhan at Rajkot Taluka police station.