A Sirsa-based advocate has threatened to burn his law degrees and launch an indefinite hunger strike with his family during the CM Nayab Singh Saini’s upcoming visit to Sirsa on Friday, alleging that revenue officials demanded bribes for processing a land mutation.
Advocate Ranjit Singh of Jamal village submitted a memorandum to Deputy Commissioner Shantanu Sharma under the leadership of Bar Association president Gangaram Dhaka, demanding action against the tehsildar and patwari concerned.
Ranjit Singh, who has been practising law at Sirsa’s District Courts for the past 14 years, alleged that his brother had purchased 15 kanals and 3 marlas of land in Jamal village through a registered sale deed in December 2025 in the names of their family members.
Singh claimed that the mutation was not entered for a long time and when he approached patwari Suresh Kumar, the official allegedly demanded Rs 50,000 for himself and Rs 1 lakh for the naib tehsildar. According to the complaint, when the advocate refused to pay, objections were deliberately raised in the mutation process. The matter is currently pending before the SDM in Sirsa.
The advocate further alleged that a similar dispute involving another portion of the same land purchased by two women from Jamal village was also marked disputed. He claimed that Krishan Chand, nephew of the original land owner, was trying to illegally claim the land despite having lost battles over the property earlier.
Singh alleged that the mutations were marked disputed on the basis of a “fake and photocopied application” and termed the action illegal. He said the harassment had shaken his faith in the system and left “no justification” to keep his law degrees. Meanwhile, Patwari Suresh Kumar denied the allegations, calling them false and baseless. He said an objection from another party had been received during the mutation process and was officially forwarded to the naib tehsildar.
