India News | FIR Against SP Leader, Seven Others for Selling Govt Land Using Forged Documents in UP

Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. An FIR has been registered against eight people, including a Samajwadi Party leader with a long rap sheet, for allegedly selling government land using forged documents in this Uttar Pradesh district, police said on Saturday.

Bareilly (UP), Apr 8 (PTI) An FIR has been registered against eight people, including a Samajwadi Party leader with a long rap sheet, for allegedly selling government land using forged documents in this Uttar Pradesh district, police said on Saturday.

A case has been lodged against Naresh Pal Gupta, a former district secretary of the Samajwadi Party, his son Satish Chandra Gupta and six others for allegedly selling government land in Faridpur Municipality by using forged documents, the police said.

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Superintendent of Police (Rural) Rajkumar Aggarwal said the FIR was lodged at the Faridpur police station on behalf of Mahendra Pal Singh, the property clerk at Faridpur Municipality.

Gupta has 14 other cases registered against him, the police said.

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(The above story is verified and authored by Press Trust of India (PTI) staff. PTI, India’s premier news agency, employs more than 400 journalists and 500 stringers to cover almost every district and small town in India.. The views appearing in the above post do not reflect the opinions of LatestLY)

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