MEERUT, April 17 -- In a case of fraud and illegal possession, 1.025 hectare government land recorded in official revenue documents as a graveyard was allegedly registered as Waqf property by creating a fake trust in Bareilly's Collector Bukganj (CB) area in 2020, Bareilly police said.

It came to light after Puttan Shah, a resident of Bareilly's Sarnia village, approached SSP Anurag Arya and lodged a complaint with him in this regard a week ago.

Acting on the complaint, the SSP Arya ordered an investigation by SP (city) Manush Pareek in which Shah's allegation that a piece of prime land in his village had been illegally occupied was found true.

It also came to the fore that shops had been allegedly built on the land and a court order c...