India, Dec. 19 -- A 40-year-old lawyer was arrested by the economic offences wing (EOW) from Gurugram on Wednesday for allegedly impersonating his neighbour who had died 32 years back to sell his plot in Bajghera , said police on Thursday.

The suspect was identified as Naveen Rana, a resident of Bajghera who practiced at the Gurugram civil court .

Police said that the deceased, Om Prakash, had died in 1993 at the age of 68, and hisfamily had shifted to Sector 4 two decades back, and his 5,172 square feet plot in Bajghera was left vacant. Rana opened two bank accounts in the deceased's name by forging documents and sold it to a realty firm in 2015 for Rs. 46.5 lakh.

Prakash's family came to know about the forgery in 2018 and got an FIR ...