ACCUSED EDITED PICS OF TEHSILDAR, WITNESSES, ALSO AFFIXED FAKE SIGNATURES, SEALS SEALS.
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Police arrested the third accused on Oct. 8 in a case of forging a will to usurp ancestral property. The accused has been identified as Sahil Sharma S/o Vinod Kumar of Ludhiana. The accused has been sent to judicial custody and two earlier arrested have been also lending in jail.
DCP Srishti Gupta stated that the 3rd accused, Sahil Sharma, typist at the District Court in Ludhiana. The accused had scanned an old registered will on the back of the will. Sahil himself had edited the Tehsildar's photo and the witnesses' photos. Sahil Sharma also forged the signatures of Mahnga Ram Sood, the Tehsildar, and Sadhu Ram Numberdar on the forged will. A fake seal was also used.
The complainant, Ranjodh Singh, son of the late Mahnga Ram Sood, a retired UK police officer and currently residing in Derby, UK, filed a complaint at the Sector 2 police station. The complaint stated that his ancestral land, located in Sector 2, Urban Estate, Panchkula, was allotted to his father, Mahnga Ram, by HUDA in 1996.
Investigation revealed that the accused had forged the property in his name by preparing a forged will dated 2008. On July 7, the police registered a case at Sector 5 police station under sections 318(4), 336(2), 336(3), 338, 340, and 61 of the Indian Penal Code. Mahnga Ram died in 2012.
DCP Srishti Gupta said , on August 25, the police team obtained a record of the forged will prepared by the accused from the Sub-Registrar, Ludhiana West. When the will was verified at the Tehsil office, no record was found. Subsequently, on August 26, the police arrested the first accused, Rohit Kumar, son of Bant Ram, a resident of Sangrur district, Punjab, currently residing in Fatehabad, and the second accused, Sethi Lal, son of Inderjit Verma, a resident of Ludhiana,
