India, July 11 -- Village Administrative Officer thwarts deal to transfer inherited property through gift deeds

By S.T. Ravikumar

Mysore/Mysuru: A land mafia is active in Mysuru, illegally amassing crores of rupees by transferring and registering properties belonging to unsuspecting owners in the names of innocent individuals (by paying them a few thousand rupees) and then selling them off to gullible buyers.

In a recently unearthed case, the mafia exploited the name of a genuine landowner and, through another woman with a deceptively similar name, managed to execute gift deeds for land valued in crores. However, when an application for Khata registration was submitted to the Taluk Office based on this fraudulent gift deed, the file re...