Police in Jind, Haryana, have registered a land fraud case against five people over alleged tampering with digital property records.
The FIR, registered on October 8, names two women associated with Jind’s former royal family, including Rani Indrajit Kaur and her daughter-in-law, Harsimran Kaur. The other accused are Municipal Council secretary Sumit Dahiya, patwari Naresh Chahal and contractor Subhash of Ramrai village. The complainant alleges that changes to government land records altered the identity and area of a family-owned farmhouse and that purportedly forged documents were used in attempts to register the property. Kaur has denied wrongdoing, describing the discrepancy as a technical error.
What changes were allegedly made to the land records?
The complaint was filed by Abhimanyu Singh, also known as Abhimanyu Chaudhary, an advocate practising at the Delhi High Court who lives in Jind’s Rambir Colony. He claims that his grandfather purchased a farmhouse on Apollo Road in 1965 and that the family continues to hold rights over the property.
According to the complaint, the farmhouse originally measured 50 kanal and two marla. However, its digital land record on the Haryana government’s portal allegedly showed a different khasra number and a reduced area. The khasra number was reportedly changed from 65/58 to 65/13, while the recorded area was reduced to 18 kanal and 15 marla.
Singh has alleged that the property’s location was also changed in the digital records, creating discrepancies over its identity. He has sought an investigation into how the entries were modified and who was responsible.
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Was another plot’s recorded area also altered?
The complaint alleges that a separate parcel of land recorded under khasra number 64/26/3/2 was also affected by changes to its recorded area. Its measurement was allegedly increased from 79 kanal and 19 marla to 115 kanal and 13 marla.
Singh has claimed that the reduction in the farmhouse’s recorded area, alongside the increase in the other plot’s measurement, created inconsistencies requiring investigation. Police will need to establish whether the changes were authorised, whether the records were deliberately manipulated and whether the alterations were connected to attempts to claim or register the disputed property.
The complainant has further alleged that two attempts were made to register the farmhouse at the tehsil office using purportedly forged documents. Neither attempt resulted in a completed registration, according to the complaint. He has called for the documents and the circumstances surrounding the attempted registrations to be examined.
What charges have police registered?
Jind City Police registered the FIR on October 8 under Sections 318(4), 336(3), 340 and 61 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, covering allegations relating to cheating, forgery, use of forged documents as genuine and criminal conspiracy. Provisions of the Information Technology Act have also been invoked.
City police station in-charge Praveen Kumar said further action would be taken in accordance with the law after the investigation. Investigators are expected to examine the digital land entries, establish how the disputed changes occurred and determine whether the documents used in the registration attempts were genuine.
The FIR names five people, but the allegations against them have not yet been established. Their individual roles, if any, remain subject to investigation.
How has Rani Indrajit Kaur responded?
Kaur has rejected the allegations and described the discrepancy as a technical error rather than deliberate tampering. She said the matter involved two adjoining properties and arose during an application for a property identification number for land under khasra number 64.
According to her explanation, an error occurred while satellite images were being captured or recorded, resulting in a neighbouring property being linked to her family’s records. She has also described the FIR as an attempt to damage the reputation of Jind’s former royal family.
Her account remains to be examined alongside the complainant’s allegations and the available land records. The investigation will determine whether the discrepancies resulted from a technical mistake or deliberate manipulation, and whether any offences were committed.
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