Maharashtra: Beed police launch hunt for duo in land fraud case

AURANGABAD: The Beed police officials have registered a case of cheating, forgery, criminal conspiracy and relevant section of Central Waqf Act, 1954 against two, including a dismissed deputy collector, and have launched a manhunt to nab the duo.
The police officers said the duo had been booked on the charges of conspiring with a common intention and illegally transferring prime 40 acres of Waqf land under the limits of the Ambhora police station.
The offence has been registered on the complaint lodged by Beed Waqf officer Amin-uz-Zama. In his complaint, the Waqf officer stated that the land is located in Devinimgaon and the title of land is with the local mosque.
The officer said the alleged illegal transfer of the land had been carried out without the knowledge and consent of Waqf, which is the supervisory, regulatory and monitoring authority for Waqf properties.
The illegal and unauthorized transfer of Khidmat-i-mash land that was granted by Nizam, to the forefathers of a private person named as accused in the case, was carried out in connivance with the then deputy collector, who served in the district in 2018.
Rahit Bhembre, an assistant inspector, said, “The suspected deputy collector named in the FIR has already been removed from the services. Recently, he was arrested in another land-related cheating case and is currently out on bail.”
The official said that police teams have been fanned out to nab the suspected duo.
The alleged forgery came to Waqf’s notice after a person identified as Syed Arif Yusuf lodged a complaint in September this year. Accordingly, an internal probe was carried out, following which a police complaint was lodged.