The Navi Mumbai police arrested three men, including two real estate agents, for forging documents of a plot belonging to the City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) in Belapur. They sold the plot to the victim for Rs 1.86 crore. The accused trio is also suspected of cheating scores of people using the same modus operandi and misusing the name of CIDCO authority.

According to police, four plots of a total 694 square meters near Belapur Village in Navi Mumbai were sold to a Nerul-based builder Dinesh Patel by two real estate agents- Lavesh Jadhav and Prabhakar Mhatre, and their accomplice Narendra Patel, a builder. According the police, the accused had shown forged documents to Dinesh, which stated the plots belonged to a deceased man named Joma Koli, which was granted to him by CIDCO under the 12.5% scheme. Meanwhile, the plots belonged to development authority.