RAJKOT: Five people were booked under the Gujarat Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act 2020 for allegedly grabbing a 240 sqm plot in Mota Mava area on Kalavad Road in the city by forging land papers.
They were booked in Rajkot Taluka police station following a complaint lodged by 71-year-old Kanti Patel, a resident of Panchsheel Complex.
The complaint was lodged against Milan Makwana (27), Dolubha Somania (49), Jitendra Gajera (42), Harshukh Chauhan (45) and one unknown person for the grabbing the land that was registered in Patel’s father Bhurabhai’s name.
“An unknown person forged the documents of the land owned by Bhurabhai in the year 2001 and sold it to Makwana.
Later, Makwana sold this land to Rajiv Godhania in 2018.
We have arrested Makwana, Somania and Chauhan.
Somania and Gajera had signed the documents as witnesses,” a police official said.
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Five booked for grabbing land in Rajkot
