India, Oct. 12 -- Five individuals have been booked for allegedly impersonating a man who died nearly 40 years ago to illegally sell a land parcel which he had already disposed of before his death, police said on Saturday.

The 1.3-acre plot in Fatehpur Billoch, Ballabhgarh, currently valued at over Rs.5 crore, was originally owned by Ganpati Prasad. He had sold it to Harbir Singh and his five brothers in 1981. The six had jointly purchased a 2.5-acre land parcel from three different owners, including Ganpati, for Rs.16,000.

However, the mutation of the land sold by Ganpati never took place in government records as no application had been made for the same. This allowed one of Harbir's younger brothers, Kishanbir Singh, to exploit the ov...