Chennai: A 70-year-old NRI from the US is running from pillar to post to get back his land measuring around nine grounds totally worth over Rs 11 crore on East Coast Road, after he found it had been encroached by a person, who was supposed to help him to sell the land, and his associates using fake documents.
“I purchased the land located on Kunnakadu village near Kovalam, in my name and my wife’s name in the eighties. I went to the US with my family in 1986. I stayed in the US till 2017. We used to come to Chennai on a regular basis and had appointed a watchman to look after the piece of land,” Trevelyan D’ Souza, said in his complaint.
Before he returned to India, he decided to sell the land and contacted an agent who claimed to be attached to a famous real estate developer in the US and gave him all the details about the land.
But to his shock on his return from the States found that his land was already taken over by a bunch of people using forged documents.
“We know it was done by real estate agent Krishnamurthy and his associates. We have given a complaint to Superintendent of Police, Kancheepuram in the first week April this year. And the case was given to Mahabalipuram police. It took three months for them to register the FIR,” D Souza said.
Some police officers acted like brokers and tried to convince him to sell his land at very cheap rate.
“One officer even suggested to settle at 10 per cent of the market value. He had brought so many buyers to me, but never bothered to arrest the suspects,” the landowner said.
The police in the FIR had listed real estate agent Krishnamurthy as the suspect number one. Ramasubramaniyan, Pazhanivel and Selvam are the associates of the agent who had allegedly readied forged documents to sell the land belonging to the septuagenarian NRI.
