IMA's class IV employee held

Dehradun police have arrested Prakash Chandra, a class IV employee of the Indian Military Academy (IMA) on charge of selling land with forged documents to an army Subedar Narendra Prasad, resident of Pauri who has been posted at leh (ladakh), Jammu and Kashmir. The accused duped the Subedar of `4.70 lakh, said Garhwal Range IG/DIG Sanjay Kumar Gunjyal while interacting with media persons here on Monday.

Gunjyal said that Prasad had written a letter to range office (SIT) stating he had purchased one bigha land from Chandra.Both Chandra and Prasad were working in IMA in 2009 where they became friends. Chandra, resident of Arkedia Grant, Dehradun had shown him a land and claimed he was owner of the land.

The deal finalised was Rs nine lakh for a bigha of land located at Mauja Arkedia Grant. later he came to know that Chandra had forged documents and presented a false witness during land registry. Chandra did not repay him the money he had given for purchasing the land in 2009. later he approached SIT over this issue on May 23, 2015. Based on written complaint, SIT conducted inquiry and found Chandra had sold land with false documents.

Taking cognizance of this, a case under sections 419/420/467/468/471/120b of IPC was registered against Chandra in the Vasant Vihar police station and he was arrested on Monday. The accused Chandra admitted his offense and said, “I had committed wrong because I needed money for the treatment of my wife who had been ill for some years."

The accused was sent to Sudhowala jail after being presented in the court.Gunjyal announced reward of `5, 000 to the team for solving the case. He said that complaints related to false land registry in the SIT are on the rise and they have decided to increase the number of police personnel including inspector and sub- inspector in SIT with an aim to solve the registered cases without delay. Around 130 complaints of false land registry have been reported out of which FIRs have been lodged in around 30 complaints in the police station concerned after completing primary investigation, he added.