Berhampur Police Arrests 3 Persons in Land Grab Case

Berhampur: Berhampur Police has arrested three persons in connection with land grabbing case.

The accused persons have been identified as SudarsanSamal (51) of Palur Bunglow under BN Pur PS, Berhampur; Susanta Kumar Rout (50) of Bijaya Bihar, 1st Line, B.Sadar PS, Ganjam and Gopinath Satapathy (63) of Durga Devi Street, Ganjam PS, Ganjam.
The accused persons have allegedly grabbed land by producing forged document and legal certificate.

Based on the report of one Ajit Kumar Dalai, the case was registered and investigated into where it was alleged that by producing a false document by the accused persons and few others along with fake legal heir certificate in respect of Lalita Dalai as the sole legal heir of deceased ROR holder Jagannath Dalai, his land bearing Khata No. 266, Plot No. 511, Ac. 0.363 of Mouza-Kukudakhandi was sold to accused Susanta Kumar Rout in the year 2011 and the latter obtained ROR of the said land by illegally influencing the then RI and Amin, deed writer and attesting witnesses to the sale deed.

Investigation of the case made so far revealed that, a fake document was prepared and was submitted before Sub Registrar Office (Rural), Berhampur bearing No-10601100307 Dt.18.1.2011 by document writer Subash Chandra Pattnaik, Berhampur District L.No.12/87, Seller Name-Lalita Dalai, W/o.Saita Dalai, Santi Samal, w/o.SyamaSamal, Sudarshan Samal, S/o.Shyam Samal and purchaser name- Susanta Kumar Rout,s/o.RabindraNath Rout and the main witnesses was A.AppaRao, s/o.A.Raghunath and P. Pratap of Berhampur in the forgery. Lalita Dalai, W/o. late Saita Dalai, Shanti Samal, w/o.ShyamSamal, Sudarsan Samal, S/o.Shyama Samal are the inhabitant of Kukudakhandi.

The accused persons together prepared the fake document of Khata No. 266, Plot No. 511, Area- Ac.0.363 dec. to one Susanta Kumar Rout, S/o.RabindraNath Rout which was registered at Sub Registrar’s office, Berhampur, Rural. In the fake document, it was mentioned that Lalita Dalai was the only daughter of Jagannath Dalai which was done by preparing false document. But, the complainant was the only son of late Jagannath Dalai and he has no sister as mentioned in the Legal Heir certificate submitted by him.

It was further established that the age of Lalita Dalai was approximately same age of his father. After death of his father, he is the only legal heir of late Jagannath Dalai. The accused persons made conspiracy and prepared fake legal heir certificate on 3.12.2019 through RI and Amin Kukudakhandi due to which, the land was recorded in the name of Susanta Kumar Rout and he has been issued ROR of the said land.

The accused persons were arrested on Saturday and have been forwarded to Court. Further investigation of the case is in progress, the police said.