GUJRAT: The Gujrat land revenue department has launched action against three members of a family for getting the mutations (fard) of at least 10 costly properties transferred in their name in parts of Gujrat through implementation of fake verdicts of the Lahore-based lower courts.

The revenue department referred the matter to the Civil Lines Police, Gujrat, for registration of a fraud case against the suspects, Muhammad Luqman, his wife Sharifan and son Shahid Luqman. It also cancelled the mutations which were inserted in the government’s official land record in the light of the fake verdicts.

Gujrat Additional District Collector Irfan Ali Kathia told Dawn one Sarfraz Khan of Langrial village, Kharian, had submitted an application pointing out the mutations of 10 different properties in Gujrat and Kharian on the fake degrees of courts around one year ago after which a thorough probe of the matter was launched.

He said the land revenue department first wrote to the courts concerned of Lahore for the verification of the verdicts on which the properties were transferred in the name of three family members’ but the courts termed the verdicts bogus.

Mr Kathia said the previous status of the ownership of the properties concerned was restored with immediate effect whereas the revenue department had dispatched a prosecution report to the Gujrat Civil Lines police station for the registration of a case against the three people and further investigation would be done by police.

Published in Dawn, October 10th, 2015

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