Times News NetworkKanpur: A fraud case worth Rs 52 lakh came to light against Army Subedar Pratap Singh Yadav, a resident of Godaha village in the Bindki area of Fatehpur, after two separate land registries were allegedly carried out twice using forged Khatauni documents.Based on the victim’s complaint, Naubasta police registered a case against two accused and started an investigation.Subedar Pratap Singh Yadav is currently posted in Nasik. He stated that he expressed his desire to purchase a plot to his acquaintance Ram Shankar, a resident of Oria village. Ram Shankar then introduced him to Pratap Singh, a resident of Lalpur, who worked in the plotting business.It was alleged that both of them showed him a 400 square yard plot in Budhpur Machhariya and quoted its price at Rs 44 lakh. After the deal was finalised, the sale deed was executed on August 28, 2019. The Subedar paid Rs 12 lakh via RTGS and Rs 32 lakh in cash.It was alleged that on August 31, when he arrived to get the plot’s boundary demarcated, he came to know that the plot belonged to someone else. Upon investigation, the Khatauni shown to him also turned out to be forged. When he demanded his money back, the accused gave him a different piece of land after taking some additional amount.The victim alleged that during the construction work on the second land as well, some people arrived and stopped the construction, claiming it to be their land. It was then that he realised he had been defrauded. The accused allegedly swindled a total of Rs 52 lakh from him by selling land through forged documents. When he demanded his money back, the accused began threatening him.Naubasta police station in-charge Bahadur Singh stated that a report was registered on the basis of the written complaint and the matter was being investigated.
