Actress Rani Mukherjee has been allegedly duped of Rs 33 lakh in a fake land deal in a village near temple town of Shirdi in Maharashtra.
Wanting to build a house in Shirdi near here in Ahmednagar district, Rani purchased a 11,000 square feet land in 2005 from one Sampat More. But she was unaware of the fact that it was non-transferable farmland and hence could not be sold.
"After the purchase, Rani paid a stamp duty of Rs 1.32 lakh for registration in the tehsildar office but the ownership of the land could not be transferred to her name as it was government land leased out to a farmer," Sub Divisional Officer Srirampur Nandkumar Suryavanshi said.
On realising that she was on the verge of losing Rs 34 lakh, Rani approached Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh a couple of days ago for help. Deshmukh then asked the Ahmednagar Collector to inquire into the matter.
"Now our office will send notices to Rani and More along with all the other previous buyers and ask how the land was sold without permission," he said.
The actress has now two options before her. Either she recovers money from the seller or pays some more amount as fine and get the land regularised.
src:TimesofIndia
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