Dehradun police have arrested a land mafia, Tejendra Singh, a native of ludhiana (Punjab) on charge of selling land with forged documents on Saturday.
In his written complaint, Sandeep Kaul, a resident of Rajendra Nagar, Dehradun has registered a complaint at Vasant Vihar police station.
He stated that Tejendra Singh had made false power of attorney of his plot (land) located at GMS Road, and sold it to Manoj Kumar and Ashok Kumar, natives of Meerut (Uttar Pradesh). Taking cognisance of the complaint, a case under sections 419/420/467/468/471 of IPC was registered against Tejendra Singh in the police station. In course of investigation it was revealed that Tejendra, Manoj and Ashok were land mafias and they had made a gang that sells vacant plot after making false power of attorney to interest persons.
To crack the case, Vasant Vihar police station in-charge Omveer Singh Rawat formed a team and team members arrested Tajendra Singh from ludhiana on Friday. He was brought to Dehradun on Saturday by the team after completing legal formality. later, at noon on Saturday, the accused was sent to Suddhowala jail after being produced in the court. Rawat said that teams have been deployed to arrest remaining accused of the case.