Sub-registrar, real estate firm owner held for cheating landowner in Bengaluru

The Central Crime Branch (CCB) of the metropolis constabulary connected Tuesday announced the apprehension of a sub-registrar and the proprietor of a existent property steadfast for allegedly cheating landowners by creating fake documents and selling aggregate sites without their consent.

The scam came to airy erstwhile a nonmigratory of Beretena Agrahara had filed a ailment astatine the Parappana Agrahara Police Station successful 2022. The complainant, who knew the existent property institution owner, had entered into an oral statement with him to make residential sites connected his land. The accused subsequently developed 107 sites connected the property.

While selling the sites, the existent property owner, on with an associate, allegedly misled the complainant by claiming helium had fixed them authorisation done an statement to merchantability the plots. The complainant was past taken to the sub-registrar’s bureau nether the pretext of registering a azygous tract successful his presence.

“However, successful collusion with the sub-registrar and a machine operator, the accused created fake documents and sold aggregate sites to the nationalist without the complainant’s knowledge, collecting crores of rupees and cheating him,” the constabulary said successful a statement.

A lawsuit was initially registered astatine the Parappana Agrahara Police Station, and successful 2024, it was transferred to the Organised Crime Wing (OCW) of the CCB for further investigation.

Following a sustained probe, the CCB arrested the sub-registrar and the existent property owner, who had been absconding for astir 3 years. Further probe is nether way, officials said.