Bidar, June 4 -- Three staff members of the Yadgir and Shahapur municipalities have been arrested on Monday for allegedly creating forged documents to illegally transfer government land to a private individual, an officer said.

"A complaint was filed on Monday by Yadgir commissioner Umesh Chavan stating that three staff members of the Yadgir and Shahapur municipalities were involved in the illegal registration of plot number 42 in survey number 151/1 on the border of Yadgir in the name of a woman named Mallamma Ramanna," superintendent of police Pruthvik Shankar said.

"The plot is part of a larger set of residential sites under the Ashraya housing plots, which includes a total of 96 plots. While some of these plots were officially allot...