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Aurangabad: Based on a complaint by the authorities, city police have booked eight people for illegally transferring a mosque, graveyard and community centre on prime property in the heart of the city in their own names. All the accused were previously members of committees that oversaw these properties that belong to the Wakf Board.The alleged forgery and change of title was committed a couple of decades back. Police said none of the accused has so far been arrested.With a series of complaints lodged by a rival group, the suspects have all faced one inquiry or another in the past few years. It only drew the attention of authorities in the year 2013, when committee members changed.Mohammed Gayas Bagwan lodged a complaint about the possession of Bagwan Masjid in city survey number 14089, the community hall in survey number 14169 and the graveyard in survey number 14208. The majority of these complaints were earlier lodged with Kranti Chowk police station or the city police commissionorate.Police authorities maintained that the case has been registered with the City Chowk police station after a specific complaint mentioned that using forged documents, the titles of these prime properties were changed at the City Survey office, falling under the jurisdiction of the City Chowk police station..