Cops book Lok Dal vice-prez, 12 others for selling land illegally
19 Feb 2013 6:27 AM IST
The Gurgaon police booked Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) vice president Anant Ram Tanwar and 12 others for cheating in a 24-year-old land sale case, the police said on Monday.
Five residents of Delhi’s Mianwali colony complained in Badshahpur police station that 13 people from Gurgaon and Delhi sold more than 2.5 acres of their ancestral land at Nangli village near Ullawas in Gurgaon in 1989.
In their complaint, Ramesh Bagga, Chandraprakash Hooda, Deepak, Sanjay and Rajiv said the land had been allotted to their ancestors after the India’s partition in 1947, when they migrated from Pakistan to India.
The real owner died in 1973, said the complaint.
Tanwar was sarpanch of Tigra village at the time of the registry of the land and he signed as a a witness on the deal papers.
Tanwar said he was innocent. The police said they are probing the case and no arrests have been made yet.
Five residents of Delhi’s Mianwali colony complained in Badshahpur police station that 13 people from Gurgaon and Delhi sold more than 2.5 acres of their ancestral land at Nangli village near Ullawas in Gurgaon in 1989.
In their complaint, Ramesh Bagga, Chandraprakash Hooda, Deepak, Sanjay and Rajiv said the land had been allotted to their ancestors after the India’s partition in 1947, when they migrated from Pakistan to India.
The real owner died in 1973, said the complaint.
Tanwar was sarpanch of Tigra village at the time of the registry of the land and he signed as a a witness on the deal papers.
Tanwar said he was innocent. The police said they are probing the case and no arrests have been made yet.
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