Widow booked for alleged property fraud
A case has been registered against three suspects at an anti-corruption police station on charges of fraudulently transferring the ownership of the property of a deceased man.
According to the complaint, a widow transferred the property of her husband to her brother’s name allegedly with the connivance of a union council secretary.
The anti-corruption police station staff started a search for the three suspects after registering the case.
The complainant, Muhammad Akram Bhatti, a resident of Taj Colony, stated that the suspect Mohammad Abbas had connived with Rifat Rukh Naz, widow his brother Nawaz Bhatti, resident of Saddar Bazaar in Ghulam Mohammadabad, and Madanpura Union Council No. 34 secretary in the fraud.
He said his brother Nawaz, son of Muhammad Sharif Bhatti, had passed away on March 19, 2015.
The suspects allegedly showed that the deceased had an adopted son named Subhan and submitted a fake birth certificate dated September 19, 2015. On the basis of the fake document, they transferred his brother's property to Subhan and Abbas and deprived him and his sisters of their inheritance share rights.
The anti-corruption establishment registered a case against the three suspects under sections 420, 468, 471, five, two, and 47 after an inquiry.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 10th, 2022.