An incident of fraud was reported by a 55-year-old Jabalpur based woman regarding selling of her property using fake documents at Sunder Nagar under Ashoka Garden police station area on Monday.
According to the police, the accused Musharraf Ali sold the plot owned by the victim Manju Singh of Jabalpur.
The victim lodged complaint with the Ashoka Garden police and in her complaint she stated that she sold the plot to Sohail Khan but when Sohail went to check the plot he found that it was under use by
some other person and when he enquired it was revealed that the plot was sold by Musharraf Ali at Rs 3.7 lakh and has made a payment of Rs 1.7 lakh.
In the initial investigation, the police found that this is the third incident of fraud of the same nature by the accused as he had earlier sold two properties using fake documents in the past and was booked by the Ashoka Garden police for the fraud but even after been nabbed by the police accused continued to commit crime and fraudulently sold a land in Sundar Nagar.
Police said that the accused targets those victims who own land in the city and reside outside the city which makes it easier for the accused to use the land for selling by producing fake documents.
The police have registered a case under section 420 of the IPC and have started further investigation. Police have started search for the accused who went absconding after the complaint was lodged.