View of high rise buildings in Bengaluru. | Photo credit: MURALI KUMAR K
The Central Crime Branch (CCB) of the city police on Tuesday announced the arrest of a sub-registrar and a real estate agency owner for allegedly cheating land owners by creating fake documents and selling multiple sites without their consent.
The scam came to light when a resident of Beretena Agrahara filed a complaint at the Parappana Agrahara police station in 2022. The complainant, who knew the owner of the real estate company, entered into an oral agreement with him to develop residential sites on his land. The accused subsequently built 107 places on the land.
The owner of the property along with a partner in the sale of the land allegedly misled the complainant by claiming that he had given them permission to sell the land through a contract. The complainant was then taken to the sub-registrar’s office on the pretext of registering a single page in his presence.
“However, the accused in connivance with the sub-registrar and computer operator created fake documents and sold multiple sites to the public without the knowledge of the complainant, collecting crores of rupees and cheating him,” the police said in a statement.
The case was initially registered at the Parappana Agrahara police station and was handed over to the Organized Crime Wing (OCW) of the CCB in 2024 for further investigation.
After a persistent investigation, the CCB arrested the sub-registrar and the owner of the property, who were on the run for nearly three years. Further investigation is underway, officials said.
Published – 11 Nov 2025 23:05 IST
