For property,patwari shows woman dead,arrested

The patwari,who is considered close to many senior officers of the district administration,including Deputy Commissioner Kahan Singh Pannu,transferred the land and mutation of the house in 2004 by showing 70-year-old Santosh Kumari as dead. She is,however,alive and came to know about the fraud recently.

According to the complainant,she is one of the legal heir of the house,which is worth lakhs,and was surprised to find that the revenue records showed her as dead in order to transfer the house to some of her relatives.

After the registration of the land deed and mutation,some banks had given loans on the house to the accused. The police have booked Kumari’s relatives,a numbardar who was a witness,and a few bank and revenue staff members under Sections 420,467,468,471 and 120-B.

“We had received the complaint and the matter was serious so. Two persons had been arrested and others are absconding,” said a senior police officer.