An Ahmedabad land trader has alleged that 10 people cheated him of Rs 4.70 crore by posing as owners of land in Oganj village and using forged identity documents, fake bank accounts and duplicate sale papers. A complaint has been registered at the Sola High Court police station against the alleged organisers, the people accused of impersonating landowners and witnesses who allegedly signed the documents.
The case involves land in survey numbers 955/4/1, 955/1 and 926 on the outskirts of Oganj. According to the complaint reported by Gujarat Samachar, the trader, Rashminbhai Mafatlal Patel, lives in the Bhadaj area of Ahmedabad and is engaged in buying and selling land.
The complaint states that around 10 months before the fraud came to light, Dharamshibhai Prabhatbhai Rabari and Dipak Paramhans Tripathi approached Patel with an offer to sell the parcels. Patel allegedly trusted them because of a prior acquaintance. The two men then introduced him to people presented as the original owners of the land.
Police records cited in the report say those individuals were allegedly not the genuine owners. Instead, the complaint alleges that people were arranged to impersonate the owners and that fake Aadhaar and PAN cards were prepared in the names of Baldevbhai Patel, Kantaben, Minalben and Hitendrakumar. Bank accounts were also allegedly opened at Bandhan Bank using the forged identities.
Using those identities, a notarised agreement to sell was prepared on 19 January 2026, according to the complaint. Registered sale documents were subsequently prepared on 30 April and 6 May. Patel allegedly paid a total of Rs 4.70 crore through bank transfers and cash in connection with the transactions.
The alleged fraud came to light when Patel applied to have the purchased land entered in his name in the government revenue records. As part of the process, notices were sent to the recorded owners. The genuine owners then contacted Patel and showed him their government revenue records, according to the report. They allegedly told him that they had not sold the land and that forged identity documents had been used in their names.
The episode highlights the operational importance of revenue-record checks in land transactions, particularly where ownership claims are supported by identity documents and registered instruments. A registered document alone did not resolve the ownership dispute in this case because the complaint alleges that the people appearing in the transaction were not the actual owners.
After learning of the alleged fraud, Patel applied to the sub-registrar’s office to cancel the sale documents and the earlier agreement to sell. The complaint names 10 people, including Rabari and Tripathi, alleged impersonators and witnesses accused of signing falsely. Police have registered the case and the investigation will determine how the identities, bank accounts and documents were created and used.
