Task Force arrests seven land grabbers

Hyderabad: Task force sleuths arrested seven members of a land grabbing gang and seized forged documents from their possession. Police said that the gang has duped several people and extorted money from several others using the forged documents.

The accused are, Ali Bin Mohammed Jabri (32), Md Wasi (37) of Chandrayangutta; Mir Shaker Ali (43) of Bhavani Nagar; Syed Karmath Hussain (48) of Santosh Nagar; Wahed Ali (29) of Kalapathar; Md Fazal Shareef (29) of Jahanuma and Md Khan (20) of Kishanbagh in Bahadurpura.

Police seized 92 forged land documents, 13 rubber stamps, five ink remover chemical bottles, nine cell phones and Rs 2.1 lakh cash. According to Hyderabad police commissioner Anjani Kumar, the accused used forged documents they are encroaching the vacant plots.

The main accused, Mohammed Habri and Md Wasi, collect information about vacant plots and pass on the details to Shaker Ali. Shaker Ali contacts Md Mujeeb Khan who collects old stamp papers from different scrap vendors. “Mujeeb uses ink erasing chemicals remove subject matter on the stamp papers and hands them over to Wahed Ali. On Shaker’s advise, Wahed Ali prepares series of link documents pertaining to ownership of the targeted plot with fake names and addresses,” Task Force police said.

After the link documents have been prepared, Md Fazal Shareef stamps the papers with fake seal of notary to project them as original sale deeds. Once the forged documents are prepared, Karamath Hussain, Fareed Khan and Azher Ahmed pose as land owners and sell the plot to innocent clients. Whenever it is possible, the gang also threatens the original land owners using forged documents and occupies the plots, Task Force Inspector S Raghavendra added.



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