LUCKNOW, Dec. 4 -- The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested three members of an organised gang accused of grabbing high-value government land by preparing forged documents and selling illegal plots to unsuspecting buyers, senior officials said on Thursday.

According to an official statement issued by the EOW headquarters in Lucknow, the gang had been encroaching government properties such as ponds, grazing land and gram sabha land. They allegedly created fake and forged documents to carry out illegal plotting and land sales. When the complainant opposed their activities, the accused reportedly used caste-based slurs and threatened to kill him.

A case in this regard was registered in 2006 at the Krishna Nagar...