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The Museum constabulary connected Sunday (October 26, 2025) arrested Anil Thampi, 48, a businessman wanted successful transportation with an elaborate existent property scam Jawahar Nagar, an upscale residential locality successful Thiruvananthapuram.
Assistant Commissioner of Police, Cantonment, Stuart Keeler, said a plainclothes transgression squad arrested Mr. Thampi from Chennai aboriginal Sunday (October 26). He said the lawsuit acrophobic the amerciable acquisition and consequent merchantability of an expansive mansion connected 14 cents of premier onshore astatine Jawahar Nagar, an upscale residential locality successful the city.
ACP Keeler said the ten-room location remained unoccupied for decades aft its owner, a doctor, migrated to the United States.
The constabulary lawsuit stated that Mr. Thampi recruited a woman, Merin, from Kollam, to impersonate arsenic the doctor’s adopted girl to usurp the spot and yet mutate it successful his relative’s name. The charges against Mr. Thampi included impersonation, conspiracy, forgery, and assurance trickery, among different sections.
According to the police, Ms. Merin approached the Revenue and Municipal Corporation authorities aboriginal this year, stating that she had misplaced the rubric deed for the property.
Subsequently, Ms. Merin allegedly utilized fake documents to involvement her assertion arsenic the doctor’s “legal heir” to instrumentality possession of the property.
The constabulary said Ms. Merin and Mr. Thampi utilized the services of a Congress person with governmental connections, Ananthapuri Manikandan, to determination the “fraudulent ownership” assertion done the acrophobic departments.
Subsequently, the accused “sold” the spot to a woman, Vasantha, whom the constabulary fishy was Mr. Thampi’s beforehand successful the crime. Ms. Vasantha aboriginal transferred the spot to Mr. Thampi’s father-in-law.
The constabulary were besides investigating gross section officials who issued the rubric deed successful Ms. Merin’s sanction without owed diligence and aboriginal helped her transportation it to Ms. Vasantha’s name.
Ms. Vasantha, different suspected beforehand for Mr. Thampi, aboriginal “sold the spot to the accused’s father-in-law.
The constabulary were probing the imaginable anti-corruption space successful the lawsuit and mightiness sanction errant officials arsenic accused. They would taxable their findings to the court, authorities and the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau for further action.
Earlier, the constabulary had arrested Ms. Merin and besides Mr. Manikandan and remanded them successful judicial custody. However, Mr. Thampi remained elusive. The constabulary issued a lookout announcement for him. They besides tracked his online integer footprint and zeroed successful connected his “safe house” successful Chennai.
Mr. Keeler said the constabulary person produced Mr. Thampi earlier a magistrate successful Chennai and secured a transportation warrant to escort him to Thiruvananthapuram for accumulation earlier the Judicial First Class Magistrate, III, Thiruvananthapuram.
