2 women from erstwhile Jind royal family booked for land fraud in Haryana

The complainant says his family’s farmhouse records were altered and forged documents were used in attempted registrations.

The Jind police have booked two women linked to the erstwhile princely state of Jind, Indrajit Kaur and her daughter-in-law Harsimran Kaur, along with three others in a land fraud case involving alleged tampering with digital land records.

The complainant alleged that the family’s land records were manipulated on the Haryana government’s land-record portal. (Representational Photo)

The FIR was registered at Jind city police station on October 8 on a complaint by Abhimanyu Singh, also known as Abhimanyu Chaudhary, a Delhi High Court advocate and resident of Rambir Colony of Jind. Municipal council secretary Sumit Dahiya, patwari Naresh Chahal and contractor Subhash of Ramrai village have also been named in the case.

According to the information from the police, a case has been registered under Sections 318(4) (cheating), 336(3) (making a false document), 340 (using a forged document as genuine) and 61 (criminal conspiracy) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), along with provisions of the Information Technology Act.

According to the complaint, Abhimanyu’s grandfather purchased a 50-kanal-and-two-marla farmhouse on Apollo Road in 1965. The property is now held by Abhimanyu and his family.

The complainant alleged that the family’s land records were manipulated on the Haryana government’s land-record portal. He claimed that the original khasra number 65/58 was changed to 65/13 and the recorded area was reduced from 50 kanal and two marla to 18 kanal and 15 marla, while the location was also altered. Meanwhile, the area recorded under another khasra number, 64/26/3/2, was allegedly increased from 79 kanal and 19 marla to 115 kanal and 13 marla.

He further alleged that two attempts were made to register the property at the tehsil office on the basis of forged documents, but registration was not completed in either case and has now sought a high-level inquiry.

According to city police station inspector Praveen Kumar, further action would be taken in accordance with the law after the investigation.

However, in her interaction with the media Indrajit Kaur has denied the allegations, describing the discrepancy as a technical error rather than deliberate tampering. She said the dispute involved two adjoining properties. According to her, her family had applied for a property ID for khasra number 64, but an error while capturing satellite images resulted in the neighbouring property being linked to their name.

Calling the allegations false, Rani Indrajit Kaur said the FIR was an attempt to defame the Jind royal family.