In India, especially Goa, many well connected locally powerful people claim to own domain names, websites, when they do not want to pay a single penny towards expenses. What is the reason why these people with a high social status, are behaving so cheaply and dishonestly falsely claiming to own the domain names which actually belong to a domain investor.
While buying domain you should always check the whois information to validate. Unless you are cent percent sure about the authorship, you should not release the money.