Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 4: Police today registered a First Information Report (FIR) against top hotelier Subash Magotra of Katra and his associate Vachaspati Khajuria after it was established during an inquiry that they had prepared fake attorneys on the name of a woman and sold prime land at main Katra town worth crores of rupees.
FIR No. 95/2012 under Sections 420, 467, 468 and 120-B RPC has been registered at Reasi police station against Subash Magotra, proprietor of Hotel Subash at Katra, Patnitop and various other business concerns and his associate Vachaspati Khajuria, police sources said.
They added that a widow Shakuntla Devi, originally a resident of Katra town and presently putting up in Jammu, had approached the Sub Judge Katra seeking justice and inquiry alleging that fake attorneys had been prepared of her land measuring 52.5 kanals near Hotel Asia at Katra town by Subash Magotra and Vachaspati Khajuria in connivance with others and the land sold to influential persons including politicians and not-State subject businessmen of Punjab.
The Sub Judge had directed SSP Reasi Raghubir Singh to hold an inquiry into the allegations within a month. After completing inquiry, the SSP submitted report to the court in which he stated that for an in-depth probe into the case, a FIR was required to be registered.
The CJM Reasi ordered registration of the FIR.
Accordingly, Reasi police yesterday registered the FIR against Subash Magotra and Vachaspati Khajuria.
Police said more names would be included in the FIR during further investigations.
Meanwhile, Reasi police had approached the court for cancellation of bail of Magotra and Khajuria after the complainant Shakuntla Devi recorded her statement in the court under Section 164 CrPC alleging that she had been threatened by the accused of dire consequences if she persisted with the complaint.
The complainant had alleged before the court and the police that Magotra and Khajuria along with other associates and Revenue officials had prepared fake attorneys of her name by producing another woman in the court and sold her prime land in Katra town worth crores of rupees to some influential persons.
Police sources said Shakuntla Devi’s husband, Sukhram had died under mysterious circumstances about 25 years back. The woman along with her children had left for Jammu then. The woman said she realized later that the accused had produced fake Shakuntla Devi in the court and sold her 52.5 kanals of prime land in Katra town worth several crores. She added that the accused had also taken compensation of her land from the Railways.
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