The Gorai police have booked a couple for allegedly selling about half an acre of government land with forged documents. The police said the accused had claimed a portion of a plot belonging to the Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation as their ancestral property.

The alleged fraud was exposed after MTDC officials were tipped in May about encroachment on the land. MTDC owns about 128 acres of land in Gorai in survey nos. 46, 53,54,56,57,59.