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A perusal of the FIR (Annexure P1) reveals that the date and time of occurrence was the year 1953-54. DDR No.36 dated 4.9.2003 was registered at 5.50 p.m. Thereafter, the FIR in question was registered.

The case of the complainant, in brief, is that he was resident and proprietor of village Chachowal. The common land of the village had been recorded in the revenue record as owned by `Shamlat Deh Hasab Rasad Khewat' in the column of ownership and `Maqbooja Malkan' in the column of possession of the jamabandis for the last many decades. The litigation qua the land in dispute was pending between the accused and the Gram Panchayat. The accused claimed their rights qua the suit land on the basis of entries in the column of cultivation of jamabandis for the years 1944-45 and 1953-54. The said revenue record was produced by the accused before the Divisional Deputy Director-cum-Collector Jalandhar. The case was decided against the accused. However, in appeal, the Joint Development Commissioner (RD) Chandigarh passed the order in favour of the petitioners. When the complainant and other inhabitants of the village Chachowal consulted the revenue record, they found out that the entries in the jamabandi sfor the year 1944-45 and 1953-54 (Parat Sarkar) had been tampered with. The entries in the column of cultivation from `Maqbooja Malkan' has been changed to `Malooka Hisedar'. The complainant got the copies of the jamabandies Parat Patwar for the year 1944-45 and 1953-54 and the entries were correct and were in consonance with the previous entries in the jamabandis in the column of cultivation. The accused had forged and fabricated the revenue record which had been kept in the Office of the Deputy Commissioner Jalandhar with a motive to grab the shamlat land of the village.