Pramesh S Jain
The Central Crime Branch (CCB) of the Bengaluru police on Tuesday announced the arrested of a sub-registrar and the owner of a real estate firm for cheating landowners.
The accused has been identified as,Roopa Kumari,sub registrar and Naveen.
According to the police,the complainant from Beretena Agrahara had lodged a case at the Parappana Agrahara police station in 2022.
The complainant,who was acquainted with the owner of a real estate company, had an oral agreement with him to develop residential sites on his land.
As per the understanding,the real estate company owner developed 107 sites on the complainant’s property, the police said.
Later,while selling the sites,the suspect,along with another individual,misled the complainant by saying that he had given them authorization through an agreement to sell the plots.
They then took the complainant to the Sub-Registrar’s office, stating that only one site was being registered in his presence.
“However,in collusion with the Sub-Registrar and a computer operator,the accused created fake documents and sold multiple sites to the public without the complainant’s knowledge,collecting crores of rupees and cheating him by not paying any money,”the officer said in a statement.
A case was registered at Parappana Agrahara Police Station regarding this fraud.For further investigation,the case was transferred in 2024 to the Organised Crime Wing (OCW) of the Central Crime Branch (CCB).
Continuing the investigation,the CCB police arrested the Sub-Registrar and the real estate owner,who was absconding for nearly three years. Further probe is underway, officials said.
