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Cops on a mission to crack down land grabbers in city

Most cases have been reported from Alipur, Kanjhawala, Chhawla, Sonia Vihar, Burari and Mehrauli

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With the number of incidents of land grabbing across the national Capital rising by the day, the Delhi Police have now started cracking down on property mafias that have been operating with impunity.

Commissioner of Police Alok Kumar Verma has directed all the district Deputy Commissioners of Police to keep an eye on big and small property dealers and mafias operating under their jurisdiction.

He has also directed them to carry out an "audit of the criminals and gangs involved in land grabbing and property disputes in the last five years". He further told them to do a proper analysis and prepare a report in this regard.

Sources said the maximum numbers of land grabbing cases have been reported from outer, south east, south west, west and north east parts of the city. "Most of the land grabbing cases have been reported from Alipur, Kanjhawala, Chhawla, Sonia Vihar, Burari and Mehrauli," said a senior police officer.

The officer further said that in a year, over 2,000 cases of property dispute and nearly 200 land grabbing cases were registered. He explained that these land grabbers forged documents and generated false paper trails.

"After they forge documents, they prepare fake General Power of Attorney papers and use them to get the properties transferred in their names," he said. "Only few are caught, that too when they leave some discrepancy in the paperwork," he added.

The cop said these land grabbers carry out recees across the city and start "working" as soon as they find dilapidated houses or flats. These mafias worked hand-in-glove with the state government departments and the Delhi Development Authority, he claimed. Police said in 2012, property mafias grabbed a a flat worth over Rs2.5 crore in south Delhi's Vasant Kunj area using forged documents of late Dr Hemlata Gupta, a Padma Bhushan awardee and former Director and Head of Medicine at the Lady Hardinge Medical College. She was found murdered at her Karol Bagh residence in May 2006 at the age of 62.

He said the mafias had made many attempts in the past to get hold of Gupta's property, which does not have a legal beneficiary at present. Gupta was unmarried and all her siblings had died. The murder case is yet to be solved, said cops.

In places such as Alipur, Kanjhawala, Chhawla, Sonia Vihar and Burari, land grabbers sell patches of land to migrants coming from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal, on the basis of forged documents. These are more than 500 cases wherein the same piece of land was sold to different people. "A complete database of these illegal mafias is being prepared by the police and all the suspected people will be under scanner," said another police officer.

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