Gurgaon: A court in Pataudi on Monday directed the registration of an FIR against 13 persons, including a tehsildar and her reader, in connection with an alleged conspiracy involving manipulation of revenue records, forgery of official documents and illegal deprivation of property rights in a land partition matter.
The FIR will be registered against tehsildar Rita Grover and her reader Sangeeta, among others. The case exposes a massive agricultural land partition fraud where officials allegedly fabricated documents, backdated orders and even presented a deceased woman as alive to usurp property.
Taking serious note of the comprehensive facts, certified evidence of chronological fabrication and explicit findings of corruption, the court of judicial magistrate first class Deepak Jaglan directed the SHO of Pataudi police station to register the FIR under appropriate sections of BNS against all proposed accused within 24 hours of receiving the order. “The police must conduct a comprehensive, impartial and in-depth investigation into the modus operandi related to the forgery of documents and the broader criminal conspiracy,” the court said.
Jaglan passed the order while hearing a complaint filed by Rohit Sharma, who alleged that his father was unlawfully deprived of his 1/15th share in jointly owned agricultural land situated in Gheelnavas village.
The court pointed out that there was blatant manipulation of official documents. Based on certified copies of revenue records, the court noted the partition application was officially instituted before the tehsildar on July 2, 2024. However, all crucial proceedings, including interim orders (zimni aadesh), the issuance of summons and public announcements (munadi), were fraudulently backdated to months prior, starting from March 2024.
Other massive chronological absurdities and procedural violations included the final ‘sanad takseem’ (instrument of partition), which was issued on July 17, 2024: the signed statements of the parties astonishingly had a future date of Sept 8, 2024, exposing the sheer fabrication of documents. A deceased co-sharer, Anika, who passed away in Dec 2017, was falsely shown as a living respondent during the 2024 proceedings to deliberately bypass the rights of her minor legal heir.
The complainant’s father was listed as a co-sharer in the initial ‘Naksha Alif’ (preliminary document) prepared in April 2024, but his name was deliberately removed from subsequent maps and the final partition order, and he was never made party to proceedings.
The complainant filed a complaint on the CM Window against the officials on May 19, 2025. Shockingly, this complaint was sent to the accused tehsildar, Rita Grover, for the investigation. She closed the complaint herself, saying anyone with a problem should go to court. By doing this, she gave herself a clean chit and hid her wrongdoings.
The court observed that the alleged crimes transcend a mere private property dispute between co-sharers. The court noted that revenue courts deal directly with the general public and the sanctity of their records forms the bedrock of property rights in the state.
