Bihar man declares father dead to sell ancestral land for Rs 2 lakh

A 90-year-old man from Bihar’s Muzaffarpur has accused his son of declaring him dead on paper to illegally sell their ancestral property. Raj Narayan Thakur, walking with the help of a stick, approached the district magistrate’s office seeking justice on Saturday, NDTV reported.

Thakur alleged that his fifth son, 44-year-old Dilip Thakur, fraudulently sold a portion of their ancestral land in Mahmadpur village for Rs 2 lakh. The land, which has not been formally divided, is still registered in the name of Thakur’s late father, Methura Thakur, and belongs jointly to Thakur and his two brothers, Ramjinish and Rampukar.

In his written complaint, Thakur stated that the family had only a verbal understanding about the land’s separation, with no legal demarcation carried out. Despite this, Dilip allegedly sold the property without his knowledge or consent, presenting a sale deed that falsely declared him dead.

Thakur presented the sale deed as proof, showing that the transaction was conducted at the Motipur Registry Office between Dilip Thakur and a buyer named Suman Saurabh. He claimed no physical verification of the land was done by the registry office before approving the sale.