India, Feb. 4 -- A deputy excise and taxation commissioner of the Haryana government was arrested in Zirakpur in Punjab on Tuesday for allegedly selling a dead man's property in Gurugram's Sector-54 for Rs.3.4 crore by forging documents, police said.

The accused was identified as Saroj Devi, 50, a resident of Sector 55 in Gurugram, police said. She joined government service in 2004 and was recently transferred to Narnaul in Mahendragarh district from Bahadurgarh in Jhajjar, they added.

According to police, the plot originally belonged to Anurag Birla, who had purchased it from a real estate firm for Rs.18.21 lakh and received an allotment letter in 2004 followed by a possession letter in 2005. Birla died in 2013. As his children were se...