By Arun Pratap Singh
Dehradun, 13 Oct: The SIT has arrested yet another advocate belonging to the third gang involved in the fake registry scam. After arresting one Mohammad Humayun Parvez, yesterday, who was related to a third gang engaged in fake registry scams, the SIT today arrested 64 year old accused Devraj Tiwari, son of Arjun Prasad. Tiwari is a lawyer and resident of THDC Colony in Banjarawala. His arrest comes in the wake of arrest of the mastermind of the third gang. The interrogation of Parvez has led to the arrest of Devraj Tiwari.
According to the police, Advocate Devraj Tiwari also got over 55 bighas of land (Khasra number 594 and 595 in Majra) belonging to Lala Sarani Mal and Lala Maniram, located in Majra, transferred to his father, Arjun Prasad Tiwari’s name with the help of the main accused, Humayun Parvez. The fake registry was dated in the year 1958.
SSP Ajai Singh revealed that Devraj Tiwari told the SIT during interrogation that, in 2014, a case of Khasra No. 594,595 Mauza Majra was filed by the accused Madan Sharma, son of late Girdhari Lal, resident of Dudhli, presently residing in Delhi, in the Civil Division of Cantt Board. Tiwari was fighting the case on behalf of Madan Sharma. The case was withdrawn by Madan Sharma. During that time, Tiwari was also engaged as a lawyer in the Golden Forest case by the accused in that case, Sameer Kamyab.
The Police state that the investigation has revealed that a person named Sameer had brought Humayun Parvez to the lawyer’s chamber of Tiwari, who informed Parvez that, though, he was fighting the case on behalf of Madan Mohan Sharma related to the property in Majra, the chances of winning that case were very slim. It was then that the conspiracy to somehow take the land in possession was hatched. Sameer had good contacts in the registrar’s office in Saharanpur, so he collected the necessary information from there and then, after a few days, the accused Devraj Tiwari, Humayun Parvez and Sameer met a relative of Parvez, Shamshad. A meeting was held at a rented accommodation at C-15 Turner Road. Here it was decided that the registry of the said land would be illegally transferred from its original owner Lala Sarani Mal to Humayun Parvez’s father, Zaleelur Rehman, and from Lala Mani Ram to the accused’s father Arjun Prasad. Once this was achieved, the money earned will be divided among all concerned. As per the plan hatched, Sameer Kamyab went to Saharanpur to collect old papers and Abdul Ghani provided them the old waste blank stamp papers from a scrap shop and these were used for making the registry. After that, Humayun and Sameer Kamyab went to Saharanpur to get information related to the fake registry in the Saharanpur record room. Here they found out about changing the registry with the connivance of Dev Kumar, son of Shobha Ram, resident of Mohalla Naveen Nagar (Saharanpur), who worked in the registrar’s record room in Saharanpur. It was also learnt that no index has been prepared for the volume of year 1958. In such a situation, it was easy to replace the original registry papers with the forged documents. Dev Kumar provided them with the documents.
To prepare the fake registry, cutting and lining paper of exactly the same size was prepared by Sameer Kamyab. And, then for printing, Sameer Kamyab collected the fake registry paper and in order to make them look old, the papers were dipped in coffee and then dried up. After this, fake registry of 55 bighas of land of Lala Sarinmal and Lala Maniram of Khasra No. 594, 595 of the year 1958 was got illegally transferred in the name of Humayun’s father Zaleelur Rehman and accused’s father Arjun Prasad. The English drafting was prepared by accused Devraj Tiwari, which was copied in the registry papers by Sana Saifi, daughter of Iqbal, resident of Azad Colony, Turner Road. Sana did this work on the instructions of Sameer Kamyab.
After the fake registry was prepared, Dev Kumar, a resident of Saharanpur was given an amount of Rs 3 lakhs by Shamshad for pasting it in a book in the record room of Saharanpur. After two-three days, Humayun Parvez along with Sameer Kamyab and lawyer Ahmed brought out its copy from the Saharanpur record room. And then a case was filed by Humayun with the SDM for the measurement of 55 bighas of land belonging to Lala Sarani Mal and Lala Maniram and a file of the same was also sent to the Nainital High Court. By the order of the High Court, the said land was measured by a joint team. Inspection was conducted. In this proceeding, Humayun Parvez was also asked to show the papers but the said land had actually been transferred to the Defence Ministry by the then District Magistrate in the year 1958 itself. As a result the petition of Parvez was dismissed and all his plans were ruined. According to SSP Ajai Singh, the SIT is making efforts to nab Dev Kumar and others who are still at large in the case. He claimed that all the accused would soon be arrested.
It appears that the scale of fake registries in Doon is much grander and it had been going on very obviously with the connivance of certain senior officials of the Registry Offices in Doon and Saharanpur. This is an angle the Police really need to work on a sincere basis in order to get to the root of the scam. This appears to be lacking so far.
