Man arrested for usurping NRI’s property
May 22nd, 2011 - 9:28 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, May 22 (IANS) A computer savvy man has been arrested for using forged documents to usurp the property of a non-resident Indian (NRI) in south Delhi, police said Sunday.
Dheeraj Singh, 46, a resident of Ghaziabad, was arrested Saturday following a complaint by the NRI property owner’s friend Surinder Malhotra. Malhotra also named Dheeraj Singh’s brother Ram Niwas in the fraud. Ram Niwas is absconding.
Police found that Ram Niwas obtained the electricity connection of Britain-based NRI Raj Rani’s property in Green Park Extension using forged documents.
“A copy of receipt-cum-possession letter was obtained from a court which revealed that signatures of a witness and the landlady in the document were forged,” a police officer said.
Dheeraj Singh and Ram Niwas were earlier arrested by Chandigarh police for cheating Punjab National Bank of crores of rupees. Dheeraj was later arrested from Chandigarh.
According to police, Dheeraj Singh disclosed that he used to visit foreign countries, befriend Indians there and collect information about their properties in India.
After getting complete details of the properties, he selected vulnerable victims like elderly NRIs who rarely visited India. He then prepared forged documents of the targeted property and usurped it, added the officer.
Recently, Dheeraj Singh undertook the project of developing land and constructing flats at Baddi, an industrial area in Himachal Pradesh, and collected a huge amount of money from unsuspecting NRIs.
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