THANE: Police in Navi Mumbai have registered a case against four persons for allegedly cheating a Mumbai-based woman interior designer of more than Rs 68 lakh under the pretext of selling a piece of land to her, an official said on Wednesday.
The case was filed on Monday at Nerul police station, he said, adding that one of the four accused has already died.
“The accused persons sold a piece of land at Pali in Raigad district to the 46-year-old victim for Rs 68.10 lakh, but failed to deliver possession of the property,” senior inspector Bramhanand Naikwadi said. The case was registered against Sumit Jain (39), who was recently murdered, real estate agent Vitthal Baban Nakde (43), Virendra Kadam (24) and Chandrakant Sawant (64).
As per their plan, Sawant posed as the owner of the land even as it was actually owned by someone else, he said. They were booked under sections pertaining to cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy, the police official said, adding that nobody has been arrested so far in this connection.
