Overview
- Shanti Nagar police registered the case on Friday based on a complaint from revenue mandal officer Shailesh Bhojne.
- Investigators allege 12 people sold and purchased a plot reserved for a cemetery in Bhiwandi’s Gouripada using official registration channels.
- The parcel is recorded under Survey No. 70 and was identified as government land by the revenue inquiry.
- The alleged transactions date to April 1976, roughly 49 years before the case was filed.
- Police say a detailed probe is underway to map the chain of deals and potential involvement of others, and no arrests have been made so far.