India, May 29 -- A sessions court has refused bail to a 49-year-old Jogeshwari resident accused of helping forge documents to fraudulently sell a 12,600-square metre plot in Dahisar belonging to a deceased builder and pocketing profits.

Additional sessions judge SB Dige rejected the bail plea of Sameera Khan, observing that the allegations against her were serious.

Khan was arrested by the Property Cell of the Mumbai crime branch in connection with a case registered by the Kasturba Marg police on a complaint filed by the Sub-Registrar of Assurances, Borivali. The complaint was lodged after the Bombay high court, while hearing a civil dispute over the land, found that one of the documents submitted before it was forged.

According to the...