Rohtak, Oct. 8 -- Police have arrested a 76-year-old former sarpanch, Shiv Lal, in connection with an alleged manipulation of land revenue records and preparation of forged documents in a nearly four-decade-old dispute involving Dhani Khan Bahadur, Dhani Garan and Dhani Mirdad villages under a joint panchayat in Hisar district.

According to police records, the case registered in 2016, relates to about 28 acres of land allegedly recorded in the name of Kulwant Rai, father of complainant Devi Dayal Singla. Singla had alleged that the girdawari (crop cultivation record) of the land, which was recorded in his father's name in 1985, was subsequently changed in favour of the panchayat through allegedly fabricated revenue records.

Following hi...