Rajasthan: Former Nagaur MP Jyoti Mirdha lodges case against uncle for land grab

JODHPUR: Former Nagaur MP Jyoti Mirdha has filed a case against her uncle Bhanu Rakish Mirdha and former tourism minister of state Usha Poonia along with others, alleging appropriation of land of her share in a parental property.
In a complaint registered by the Chopasni Housing Board police station on a court order, the ex-MP has alleged that her uncle, also an ex-MP, Bhanu Prakash Mirdha sold a part of 50 bigha land in Chopasni area belonging to her father Ram Niwas Mirdha.
The property is famous in the city as Mirdha Farm House and bears a huge market value presently. Her grandfather, famous in Rajasthan state politics as ‘Baba’, used to stay here until his death.
“Since then, her uncle and father’s younger brother Bhanu Prakash Mirdha has been living here. In 1988, he sold a part of this property from her father’s share to one Bhanwar Lal for the purpose of a residential development,” she alleged in her complaint.
She further stated that since they were only two daughters of her father and lived out of Jodhpur, they never knew about this development. Taking advantage of their absence, her uncle fabricated no objection certificate in the then UIT, Jodhpur bearing counterfeit signature of her father 6 months before his death in 1993 and got it converted into his name and got it converted from agriculture to a residential land.
She claimed that after her father’s death, her mother Veena Mirdha inherited this property and the inheritance came to her and her sister Hemshweta after her mother’s death.
Justifying the delay in filing the case, ex-MP said that she learnt about this appropriation in 2018 during a claim of division in the court. After that, she moved a petition to the chairman of the JDA, who stayed the conversion in March this year.
In her complaint, she has given 13 names including her uncle Bhanu Prakash Mirdha, ex-tourism minister Usha Poonia, her two daughters, daughter of a former IPS officer Firoz Khan, who all are the members of the society formed for the purpose, including sub registrar (First).