Land conversation is related to converting agriculture land to non agriculture land for making housing layouts and other use.
There is no parties involved. For making agriculture land to NA, need to pay fee to govt.
The simple reason to use credit card is it gives 45 days time to pay. Friend was giving us cash it's not huge around 2lakh in total fee to be paid online.
Reason for multiple trx is that having some knowledge of payment, if the payment fails it will be refunded back since there is trx history no matter what we can trace and fight with merchant. I have 21 credit cards, Trx failure is pretty common and refund is almost automated, This happens all the time, never did failed trx got struck in my lifetime. Unless the intention are to scam people's hard earned money. There is nothing fishy. We were over confident on digital payments and it's safety.
But here the merchant is Govt without single head or dispute readdresal dept. Also after the episode only I got to know that I can't raise complaint to RBI, nor to consumer court nor any FIR. Will try CPGRAM complaint after some time.