Surat, May 20: District Inspector of Land Records, Anant Patel, arrested by the Surat CID in connection with a case of alleged cheating, has been sent to police remand.
The case came to the fore following a police complaint lodged by Surat resident Azad Ramolia in January 2025 accusing Surat city survey office Deputy Director K D Gamit, Surat district Land Record Inspector Anant Patel, an unidentified computer operator, and proprietors of a ghost firm named Samruddhi Corporation of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy.
Based on complaint, a probe was launched into the matter.
Ramolia, in his complaint alleged that he had purchased two agricultural plots at Dumas and Gavier (refers to areas within the Surat Urban Development Authority region) near Surat International Airport from one Rasik Lallubhai, a resident of nearby Magdalla village in 2016.
According to the FIR, Ramolia completed the payment during the time period between October 18, 2016 to July 15, 2017, following which he got the plots registered in his name.,
Later, through a local land broker he came to know that his land at Gavier and Dumas is on sale in the market. He checked the documents and found that some Samruddhi Corporation had sold the plots to private persons and illegally entered their names on registration documents.
After probing the matter, Ramoliya found about involvement of Deputy Director K D Gamit, Land Record Inspector Anant Patel, the computer operator and proprietor of Ghost Samruddhi Corporation in the fraud.
The accused were absconding since the complaint had been registered, said police.
Surat CID Crime Branch Deputy Superintendent of Police A M Captain said, we have made the first arrest in the case of Inspector of DLR (District Land Record) with Surat city survey office while others are still absconding.
The accused is under four days of police remand.
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