Archive · 2 Jun 2025
Municipal Staff Booked for Replacing Documents in Property Dispute
Some municipal staff got in trouble for swapping real documents with fake ones about a property dispute.
This happened in a government office on a Sunday.
They were trying to cheat the city and its people by making the fake documents seem real.
The police are now looking into the case and have charged the staff with various offenses.
The situation started when someone looked into how a property got registered.
The people who are in trouble are from different departments in two different cities.
The fake documents were in a file about a site dispute.
The officials wanted to destroy original documents in the case and replace them with fake ones.
Police registered a case against municipal staff for replacing original documents with fake ones.
The incident occurred in Yadgir and Shahapur CMCs.
Staff from Yadgir and Shahapur CMC were involved in the document replacement.
The fake documents were related to a property dispute.
The case was registered under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita (BNS).
- Who
- Revenue Inspectors Manappa Ningappa Badiger and Moinuddin Mohammad Hazrat, and Supervisor Hanumanthappa Mallappa Ashinal
- What
- Replacing original documents with fake documents in a file concerning a property dispute.
- When
- Sunday (a government holiday)
- Where
- Yadgir City Municipal Council (CMC) office
- Why
- To cheat the department and the general public by replacing original documents with fake ones regarding a property dispute.
- Location of Incident
- Yadgir and Shahapur
- Staff Involved
- Two from Yadgir CMC, One from Shahapur CMC
- Day of Incident
- Sunday (a government holiday)
- Charges
- Sections 316(4), 316(5), 318(3), 318(4), 323 and 340(1) under Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita (BNS)
- Complaint Filed By
- CMC Commissioner Umesh Chavan
- Issue
- Illegal property registration