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The Economic Times
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UP man uses AI to trace lost 25 ancestral land plots in village he barely knew, here's how he did it

A man has gone viral online after revealing how an AI assistant helped him locate 25 pieces of ancestral land in Uttar Pradesh’s Mohammadpur village, land he could not identify on his own despite being the legal heir. The unusual story, shared by Zahid Khan on LinkedIn, has sparked conversations around how artificial intelligence may solve everyday problems hidden inside India’s complicated government systems.

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Family land lost in paperwork maze

In his post, Khan explained that the land had passed down through several generations, from his great-grandfather to his grandfather, then to his father, and eventually to him. But finding the actual plots turned into a difficult task because the records were scattered across different government websites and written in highly technical Hindi.

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