Ludhiana, July 10 -- What began as a complaint of land grabbing ended up exposing a deeper fraud, landing the complainant himself in legal trouble. The Ladhowal police have booked five persons-including the complainant and his brother-for allegedly forging documents and impersonating their deceased father to illegally transfer ownership of their ancestral land.

Gulshan Kumar, a resident of EWS Colony at Tajpur Road, along with his brother Charanjit Gogna, had approached the police in September 2024 accusing realtor Parveen Kumar of Rishi Nagar of fraudulently grabbing their ancestral land in Razapur village. The complainants alleged that Parveen Kumar had executed a sale deed using forged documents and an imposter posing as their father ...