Naroda police have registered a case against eight people after a businessman from Ahmedabad allegedly died by suicide amid a dispute over land in Dabhoda, Gandhinagar, according to a report by Divya Bhaskar. The complaint alleges that repeated harassment, threats and objections to the sale of the land left him under severe mental distress.
The deceased, identified in the report as Hasmukhbhai Patel, lived in the Mohannagar Society area of Naroda. His son, Darshak Patel, filed the complaint at Naroda police station. Police have begun investigating the allegations, which include the alleged abetment of suicide.
According to the complaint, the disputed property was located in Dabhoda and included 4.5 vighas of land that had earlier been acquired by Hasmukhbhai’s grandfather from a person identified as Magandas Patel. The family later sold three vighas, while the remaining 1.5 vighas was reportedly given to two sharecroppers, Dilipji Solanki and Udaji Solanki, for cultivation.
The complaint alleges that the two sharecroppers objected after they were removed from the land. They reportedly claimed that they had cultivated it for years and continued to assert possession. The family alleges that the dispute led to repeated harassment and threats.
A separate dispute reportedly emerged when legal heirs of the earlier owner—identified as Jagdishbhai, Baldevbhai, Pravinbhai, Kamleshbhai, Darshanbhai and Chinmaybhai—filed objections against the sale of the land. The complaint says the objections prevented the land transaction from receiving a certified entry in the revenue records. The heirs allegedly claimed that the land belonged to them and questioned how it could be sold.
The reported dispute highlights the importance of certified revenue entries in land transactions. Such entries help record changes in ownership and possession, but objections can delay or complicate the process while the underlying claim is examined by the relevant authorities. In this case, the complaint links the prolonged dispute over the entry and alleged threats to the deceased’s distress. The legal validity of the competing claims has not been established in the supplied report.
The report states that Hasmukhbhai sent messages and photographs to his nephew on WhatsApp on November 4 from the Karai canal area before allegedly jumping into the Narmada canal. His body was recovered from a canal near Kadi on November 6, according to the report.
A suicide note was also reportedly recovered from a cupboard at his home. The note allegedly referred to the inability to obtain a certified land entry, harassment by the people named in the complaint and threats to his life. Police have registered the complaint against all eight accused persons and are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death and the land dispute.
