PUNE: The Pimpri Chinchwad police are investigating a complaint by a 69-year-old wholesale trader from Bohari lane accusing five people of connivance and forging his signature to sell his 40 gunthas of land worth Rs 61.41 lakh in Khed taluka.
The man, who filed a complaint with the Alandi police on Thursday, said a resident of Ahmednagar district first produced a person looking similar to the complainant before the registrar’s office. “The man forged the complainant’s signatures and showed that he had sold the land to the suspect for Rs61.41 lakh. The fraud happened in April 2019,” said sub-inspector Bapu Jondhale of the Alandi police, who is investigating the case.
He said as the suspect was having the sale deed in his name, he first removed the complainant’s godown from the land. “The complainant also claimed that the suspect had stolen the material worth Rs5 lakh from the godown,” Jondhale said.
“When the complainant came to know about the fraud, he had submitted a complaint application and left for his native place in Uttar Pradesh during the lockdown,” Jondhale said.
When the complainant returned to Pune he found that the suspect had already sold 12 gunthas land to a group of three people, and the remaining 28 gunthas to a resident of Dighi between February and March 2021.
