Mohali, May 2 -- A revenue official and his associate were booked by police on Thursday for allegedly orchestrating a land fraud by forging documents and illegally transferring a woman's property in Zirakpur.

The accused, identified as Patwari Jagdish Sharma, and his associate Madhu Singh, allegedly exploited the complainant Jaswinder Kaur's lack of awareness to manipulate official land records and execute a fraudulent sale.

According to the complaint, Jaswinder Kaur inherited a large tract of land from her mother in 2007 and retained around 9 acres after subsequent transactions and a family settlement. The land was also under a court-ordered status quo at the time.

Police said the accused prepared forged land records in 2012, inflatin...