Forgers held
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 15 2023:
Thoubal police today arrested two persons for allegedly forging documents to receive compensation of over Rs 1.3 lakh for a plot of land they do not own.
The two arrested have been identified as Irom Tomba Singh (64) of Thoubal Achouba Keithel Makha and Moirangthem Ningthembi Singh (62) of Heirok Part-I Heitupokpi.
The plot measuring 0.0101 hectare situated in 28-Thoubal Achouba actually belongs to one Ning- thoujam Ranjit of Khanga-bok Part-II Khullakpam Leikai.
The plot was sold to him (Ranjit) by Irom Tomba, one of the accused.
While none of the two arrested were the owner of the plot and it was not affected by the NH-102 expansion work, they had allegedly doctored documents to claim compensation.
The doctored documents, which also claimed Irom Tomba as the owner, were submitted by M Ningthembi, the then i/c AS&SO-VII (now retired) .
With the forged documents, Irom Tomba received around Rs 1,30,000 as compensation in two instalments during the year 2020-2021 .
The two arrested allegedly shared the compensation amount.
They were arrested after a complaint was filed with the Thoubal police station yesterday.
An FIR was lodged and they were arrested under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code.
They were later produced before the Duty Magistrate Thoubal and taken to custody till February 18 .