India, April 10 -- The Naigaon police have registered a first information report (FIR) against a warehouse owner for allegedly using forged documents to claim higher compensation from the National High Speed Rail Corporation Ltd when his property was acquired for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project in 2019.

The accused businessman, Harish Bhanushali, colluded with local revenue officials and misrepresented his two-storey warehouse in Poman Industrial Estate in Vasai East as a three-storey structure, obtaining Rs.3.5 crore as compensation, police officers familiar with the matter said. Unidentified officials from the public works department (PWD) and the revenue department have also been booked for allegedly abetting the fraud, the ...