State president of a Muslim body Hifzur Rehman alias Chhote Miyan, who was absconding for the last nine months in a forgery case, surrendered in the local court on Wednesday. The court did not provide any relief to Rehman and sent him to police remand till May 25.
Rehman appeared in the court of justice Varsha Sharma at about 12 noon and surrendered. In the evening, court sent him on five days police remand that would last till May 25.
Rehman is allegedly involved in blackmailing of land related cases and other cases have also been registered against him pertaining to this.
Notably, a complaint of forgery was lodged against Rehman at Koh-e-Fiza police station of the city in September 2013 by the director of lligraves Infratech Private limited – Miraj Wadood and soon after he went was absconding.
Wadood in his complaint had alleged that Rehman had forcibly possessed six acres of land valued at `30 crores on the basis of a forged power of attorney. The land in Koh e Fiza is part of Khasra number 52 that has the total land of 71.57 acres. A hotel is located on the one end of this land while rest of the land is open. Rehman had forged the documents showing his right on six acres of land from it.
On getting complaint the Koh-e-Fiza Police Station registered FIR against Rehman under sections 420, 467, 468, 471 and 34 of the IPC and was looking for him since but failed to trace him till now.
Since the registration of the complaint Rehman was on the run and the police made many attempts to arrest him in the process search and raids were made at all his possible hideouts. According to the information available Rehman surrendered after having failed to get the bail in the case from lower court to district court and high court.