An elderly couple has alleged that a builder has grabbed their land located near the Bhubaneswar-Puri National Highway (NH) paying only registration fee.
They approached the Mancheswar police to file a complaint against the builder, but they returned with great disappointment. As the land comes under the Satyabadi police station, the Mancheswar police asked them to lodge the complaint there.
The builder operating in Bhubaneswar reportedly wanted to buy 30 decimal of land of the couple in the Sataybadi area. Approach by an employee working at the real estate firm, the couple Balabhadra Sahoo and lakhmipriya of Biramitrapur Dandasahi under the Satyabadi police station in Puri district had agreed to sell their land.
The deal was made for Rs 8.10 lakh. Initially, the builder paid Rs 3 lakh in advance for registration of the land. He had promised to pay the rest of the amount Rs 5.10 lakh later. However, the couple got no payment after registration since eight months. Even, the employee’s phone number provided to them was always found switched off.
Meanwhile, the couple came to know that their land has been sold to four to five persons.