Bengaluru: In 2014, a woman approached the High Court of Karnataka seeking denotification of 2 acres and 8 guntas land in Uttarahalli hobli, Bengaluru South taluk, putting the government and the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA), which had issued the final notification for the land in 1994, on the defensive.

During the protracted (and ongoing) legal battle, an internal inquiry by the Revenue Department found that the woman’s claims were supported by multiple forged documents and tampering with original documents.

The scam involved erasing a 1979 entry in the Tenancy Register to fake occupancy rights, adding survey numbers to the original tenancy rights application, and creating a khata in the name of a deceased person, only to transfer it to his wife within months. The illegal khata,

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