The Hisar police registered an FIR against a serving tehsildar Vijay Singh, his two sons Azad Singh and Ajit Singh, and Ajit’s wife, Jyoti, in a property fraud case worth ₹5.35 crore.
The complaint filed by Himanshu Mittal, a chartered accountant and resident of Hisar’s Sector-15, alleged that the accused sold him two houses already committed to other buyers under a prior agreement.
According to the complaint and subsequent investigation, the sequence of events began in May 2025.
“Azad Singh, Ajit, Jyoti and their father Vijay (posted as tehsildar) approached Mittal with an offer to sell two residential houses — numbers 3162 and 3163 located in Sector-14, Part-2. They assured him that the properties were free of any legal disputes, except for an outstanding bank loan of around ₹2 crore that needed to be cleared,” the complaint said.
It stated that on May 28, 2025, the parties finalised the deal for a total consideration of ₹5.35 crore and Mittal began transferring funds from his and his wife’s bank accounts.
“By July 2025, he had paid more than ₹5.26 crore towards the advance and for settling the bank loan and about ₹9.5 lakh was withheld on account of TDS and other charges. The accused duly handed over physical possession of both houses, the original title documents and the keys. Permission for transfer of ownership was also obtained from the Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP),” it added.
{{/usCountry}}“By July 2025, he had paid more than ₹5.26 crore towards the advance and for settling the bank loan and about ₹9.5 lakh was withheld on account of TDS and other charges. The accused duly handed over physical possession of both houses, the original title documents and the keys. Permission for transfer of ownership was also obtained from the Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP),” it added.
{{/usCountry}}However, problems arose when Mittal insisted on executing and registering the sale deeds, but the sellers began delaying the process daily.
The complainant approached the civil court seeking relief. As court proceedings were underway, Mittal received official notices that revealed the whole case: the same two houses had already been the subject of an agreement to sell executed on September 10, 2024, with Surender and Anil Kumar, both residents of Urban Estate in Hisar.
Those earlier buyers had paid ₹50 lakh as advance under the prior deal, it was revealed.
Further investigation by the EOW revealed that the accused family used a substantial portion of the money received from Mittal—approximately ₹85 lakh—to purchase another house in Sector-14 in the name of their third brother.
Based on the complaint and the EOW findings, the Hisar city police station registered a case against the three named accused—Azad Singh, Ajit Singh, and Jyoti—under Section 318(4) (cheating) and Section 61(2) (criminal conspiracy) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.