Barmer/Jaisalmer, July 12 -- A 92-year-old retired Army officer who fought in the 1962 India-China war and the 1965 and 1971 India-Pakistan wars is now fighting what his family calls the "fourth battle" of his life-this time to reclaim his own land, allegedly sold using forged documents and an impersonator.

Captain Chunni Lal (retd), a resident of Himachal Pradesh and a Pong Dam project oustee, has alleged that agricultural land allotted to him under the rehabilitation scheme in Jaisalmer's Mohangarh area was fraudulently mortgaged and later sold for Rs.25 lakh without his knowledge.

According to the complaint, members of a land mafia prepared forged documents and produced an impersonator to execute the sale deed.

Despite possessing th...