The Central Crime Branch (CCB), a wing of the Chennai Police, had recovered 296.50 acres of grabbed land valued at Rs.269 crore from persons who had allegedly taken possession by using force or other means is a proof of the growing menace. The factual statistics is that of between July 2006 and June 2007. Much more complaints are being registered by the police department.
Normally, land grabbing is done by anti-socials who come to know that the real owners are away or settled abroad for a long time and nobody to take care of the property. They first indulge in encroachment to see whether any objections or checking is done by the property owners and if found comfortable settle themselves and subsequently sell at hefty prices by posing themselves as owners.
Another way of grabbing is done by the local indecent brokers. When a genuine owner wants to sell the property, a copy of the document given to the broker is misused and a breach of trust is committed. With the connivance of few insiders in the sub-registrar office they forge the document and the sale deed got registered.
There are instances where a tenant created specific power of attorney and executed the sale deed on the house where he lived for years as though he was the real owner. Another instance being a gang created a fake death certificate and based on that a fake legal heir certificate is issued which was used to fabricate the ancestral property and was sold without the knowledge of real owners. Even the legal advisors are unaware as they go only by the papers which are sequentially done.
We, the land owners, are also to be blamed for allowing such transactions due to our negligence. It is not worth owning properties without constant monitoring. At the same time, many NRIs are helpless in this aspect as they have to depend on their relatives or friends for constant watch of their properties. Practically, it is difficult for the fact that the relatives envy or eye the same for them. With friends, it may be an embarrassment for both the parties.
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February 27, 2009 at 8:45 pm |
That is very much true.
This is the real case.It is happening.I am son of S.Pakkiriswamy.
Special Correspondent
CHENNAI: Two persons were arrested on Wednesday on charges of land grabbing.
Following a complaint from S.Pakkirisami of Sastri Nagar, Adyar, that some persons had managed to sell his property on Sathsang Road, Madipakkam, valued at Rs 1 crore, by preparing forged documents, Commissioner of Police G.Nanchil Kumaran directed the Central Crime Branch police to register a case. Investigations revealed that a three-member gang had fabricated documents such as death certificate and legal heir certificate of Pakkirisami and registered the land measuring 5,616 square feet in their name through a forged general power of attorney at the Pallavaram Sub-Registrar Office.
Subsequently, the gang also attempted to sell the property. The main accused, K.S.Ragupathi of Madipakkam, who was arrested a few months ago in connection with similar land grabbing complaints, was detained under the Goondas Act on Wednesday, an investigating officer said.
The police gave the names of accomplices of Raghupathi as K.Meeran Moideen (48) of Ambal Nagar, Keezhkattalai, and K.Habib Rahman (30) of Vyasarpadi, both real estate agents, who allegedly signed as witnesses in the documents. The police registered cases of cheating, forgery and conspiracy against the two persons and produced them before a city court.
April 5, 2009 at 10:09 am |
My husband (not an NRI) is a recent victim of such a fraud. He has been the owner of a plot in the suburbs of Chennai for over thirty years and we found out recently that it has been sold under power of attorney by a total stranger to another by forgery. The photos affixed on the fradulent document are all of strangers. My question: isn’t the registration office, a service institution controlled by the state government, at least one of the culprits if not the chief, as the transaction is carried out clearly without due diligence? For instance, if some money is taken out of your bank account by a forger, the bank is held liable for the damages caused to you. And frankly, in a supposedly free and fair country, as long as you pay all your dues to the state, it shouldn’t matter, if you are physically present near your property or not. The government should formulate stringent laws to deal with such acts, to aid the victims and not punish them by forcing them to resort to expensive legal measures.