Aurangabad: Seven booked for forgery and cheating

AURANGABAD: Police have booked seven people, including women, for usurping a plot that was purchased by an executive from Haryana.
Harish Kaushik, a resident of Haryana, purchased a plot located in the Chikalthana area sometime over a decade ago when he was employed at a Chitegaon-based plant in Aurangabad. Soon after, he got a transfer to Pune, and finally settled in Delhi.
City Chowk police inspector Sambhaji Pawar told TOI, “On learning that Kaushik has been transferred to Delhi and that he had not returned to Aurangabad since 2007, the suspects forged identitiy proofs and other documents.They impersonated as land owners and got the property transferred.” Primary investigation reveals that the plot has been transferred illegally twice.
Kaushik learnt about the cheating when he was randomly scrolling through the 7/12 extracts available online. Much to his surprise, he found that someone else was the owner of his plot. Initially, he mistook it as an error on the part of the revenue department. However, when he contacted them, he was told that the plot had been transferred at least twice, starting from June 2014.
He immediately rushed to Aurangabad and gathered all the official records, only to find that the cheating had been carried out in an organised manner. Pawar said that an offence against the suspects was registered on Thursday, after Kaushik personally turned up at the police station, along with the documents he could obtain from the registry office.
The plot in question is situated in the vicinity of Ghardona village and currently has a high market value due to some major development projects that have started coming up in the area.