India, March 25 -- The residents of two cooperative housing societies in Balewadi are worried that their access road may be demolished in future as a land surveyor has erroneously placed the said road under private ownership. So much so that the residents have accused the Land Records Office (LRO) of deliberately altering land records to benefit a private landowner, and have demanded an investigation into the matter.

According to the residents, it all started with an employee of the LRO - surveyor V V Kokare - carrying out a boundary-marking exercise without consulting the society members during which, the access road of Amit Emerald Park Society was mistakenly shown as part of a neighbouring private property despite the road having been...