GIFT land scam: Land sold on fake power of attorney of Nadiad farmer
Updated: Sep 29th, 2024
As land prices continue to soar, so too are the number of crimes related to land. A farmer from Nadiad has filed a complaint with the Dabhoda police station alleging that land near GIFT City was sold without his knowledge by forging documents.
Prabhudas Patel, a farmer, owned 18 acres of agricultural land worth ₹190 crore in Ratanpur village near GIFT City. In his complaint, he named six people, including the sub-registrar who registered the sale without proper documents of Power of Attorney (PoA), the person who bought the land, and the person who created the fake PoA.
When Patel put the land for sale, the preliminary information revealed that the land has a PoA on the ₹100 stamp paper already.
These stamp papers mentioned that the land was a person named Gafur bought this land on behalf of Deepak Bharwad of Thaltej. The PoA was given by Prabhudas Patel and accepted by Kaushik Vaghasiya, as per the alleged fake document.
The investigation revealed that a notary was not registered for this deal. The stamps used in the document were fake.
A fraudulent power of attorney was used to sell land in the name of Kaushik Vaghaasiya. This document was prepared with false signatures and evidence, including a false affidavit regarding the farmer’s demise.
Other individuals were also involved as witnesses and signed the documents.
The power of attorney was dated 2018, while the land sale transaction occurred in 2024. The supporting documents presented for the transaction also contained numerous inconsistencies and discrepancies.
Patel complaint and named the accused including Nikol’s Kaushik Vaghasiya, who purchased the land fraudulently, and the witnesses who signed the document: Babu Kakadiya of Thkkarnagar, Bhavesh Dobariya of Nikol, Jaydeep Zalawadiya of Rajkot, Ashok Gajera, and sub-registrar Vishnu Desai who prepared the document.
Based on this complaint, the police have registered a case and started an investigation.
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