Forged seals of 23 Sub-Registrar offices found as Malkajgiri police bust property document racket
Police in Malkajgiri have arrested two individuals for operating a large-scale property document forgery racket. The suspects used dozens of forged government seals to create fake legal documents for property transactions over an eight-year period.
Why it matters
This case exposes significant vulnerabilities in property registration systems and the potential for widespread real estate fraud.
A document writer and his assistant were arrested at LB Nagar for running a property document forgery racket for the last eight years, with police recovering 41 rubber stamps and seals, including those belonging to 23 Sub-Registrar offices, GHMC, HMDA and authorities in Dubai and the United States.
The accused, Devaguptapu Veera Venkata Satyanarayana, 38, a document writer who previously operated a MeeSeva centre, and his assistant Pole Raju, 42, were apprehended by the LB Nagar Zone Special Operations Team (SOT) and LB Nagar police on Wednesday.
Police said that Satyanarayana and his associates had allegedly been preparing fabricated General and Special Powers of Attorney, mortgage release deeds, sale deeds, gift deeds, authorisation letters and link documents for the past eight years.
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