Mohali, May 2 -- A case has been registered against a revenue official and his associate for allegedly orchestrating a land fraud by forging documents, police officials said on Thursday. They illegally transferred a woman's property in Zirakpur, they said. Complainant Jaswinder Kaur alleged that the accused, identified as patwari Jagdish Sharma and his associate Madhu Singh, manipulated official land records and executed a fraudulent sale. According to the complaint, she inherited a large tract of land from her mother in 2007 and retained around 9 acres after subsequent transactions and a family settlement. The land was also under a court-ordered status quo at the time. The police said the accused prepared forged land records in 2012, inflating the landholding and omitting the court stay. They then allegedly took the complainant to another location and had her sign a general power of attorney (GPA) under false pretenses in favour of Madhu Singh, the complaint read. Using this document, Madhu Singh executed a sale deed for 6 bighas of land in favour of Sita Devi, who is Jagdish Sharma's mother. The alleged fraud came to light in 2022 when the accused attempted to get the land mutation approved. The tehsildar flagged discrepancies and rejected the mutation after suspecting forged documents. During a subsequent inquiry, a patwari, whose signatures appeared on the documents, stated that the papers had been scanned and forged. The revenue official confirmed that the original records at the time reflected a court stay on the property. Following an inquiry by revenue and police officials, the SAS Nagar SSP approved the registration of an FIR. Sections 406, 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B related to cheating, forgery, criminal breach of trust and criminal conspiracy have been slapped on the accused, police officials added....