A document writer and his assistant were arrested at LB Nagar for running a property document forgery racket for the last eight years, with police recovering 41 rubber stamps and seals, including those belonging to 23 Sub-Registrar offices, GHMC, HMDA and authorities in Dubai and the United States.
The accused, Devaguptapu Veera Venkata Satyanarayana, 38, a document writer who previously operated a MeeSeva centre, and his assistant Pole Raju, 42, were apprehended by the LB Nagar Zone Special Operations Team (SOT) and LB Nagar police on Wednesday.
Police said that Satyanarayana and his associates had allegedly been preparing fabricated General and Special Powers of Attorney, mortgage release deeds, sale deeds, gift deeds, authorisation letters and link documents for the past eight years.
Acting on information that forged documents were being prepared at an apartment near LB Nagar Metro Station, police raided the premises and seized property documents, 25 non-judicial stamp papers of â‚ą100 denomination and 41 rubber stamps and seals.
Of the seized seals, 23 belonged to Sub-Registrar offices, three to GHMC and HMDA and two to the Gram Panchayat office at Mansoorabad. Five were purported to be from authorities in other countries, including three from Dubai and two from the United States. Police also recovered date, month and year stamps and five other seals.
Malkajgiri Police Commissioner B. Sumathi said that the accused forged the signatures of GHMC and HMDA officials and had people impersonate government officials to prepare documents required for the release of property mortgages.
Police have so far identified 10 property transactions in which the group is suspected to have used forged documents. These involve properties falling under Sub-Registrar offices including Azampura, Chikkadpally, Golconda, Gandipet, Banjara Hills, Medchal, Quthbullapur, S.R. Nagar and Peddamberpet.
“One of the transactions involved 6,000 square yards of land at Batasingaram village, supported by what police described as a fake land conversion proceeding dating to 2007,” said the officer.
Six other persons have been named as associates and are absconding. Police identified them as Mohammed Zaheer Ahmed, Gulam Mohammed Khan alias Khan Saab, Cheedela Shiva Nageswara Rao, Yempalla Mahipal Reddy, Vatti Koti Bhasker and Bavisetty Vijay Kumar.
“Ahmed and Khan brought clients seeking mortgage releases, fake sale deeds and other documents to Satyanarayana. Nageswara Rao impersonated a GHMC Town Planning authorised official, while Mahipal Reddy posed as an HMDA authorised official. Bhasker and Vijay Kumar acted as witnesses to the documents,” added the Commissioner.
She added that Satyanarayana had previously been involved in nine cases registered across the Malkajgiri, Cyberabad, Future City and Hyderabad commissionerates. His arrest was pending in two cases registered this year at Malakpet and Kukatpally police stations.
Further investigation is on to establish the extent of the network, verify the documents suspected to have been forged and trace the remaining accused.
Published – October 07, 2026 09:23 pm IST
