Mumbai Crime: Con lawyers, maid caught trying to usurp Rs 4 cr house

Star building at Worli PicsBipin KokateFlats 301 and 302 worth crores in South Central Mumbai would have been grabbed by a maid but for the alertness shown by a high court judge Two lawyers incidentally sisters who have been accused of abetting the crime had applied for anticipatory bail Rejected by the lower court it is now pending at the HCThe building in Worli where the flats in question are locatedGeeta Surve 43 worked as a maid at those flats belonging to Mohan Narayan 42 a diabetic and a bachelor who lived with his aged parents His father died the year 2009 on September 20 2014 Mohan too passed awayThe maid taking advantage of the fact that there was only an aged mother and Mohanrsquos sister a professor in a reputed US university tried to usurp the two flats At the current estimate the flats are estimated to be over Rs 4 croreAlso Read MMRDAagentpolitico nexus Touts use RTI to usurp Mumbai womans propertyDatta Padsalgikar Commissioner of Police MumbaiThe sisters forged a marriage certificate that said the maid was married to the deceased bachelor Another forged document they helped the maid with was a will allegedly by the deceased bequeathing the property to the maidThe maid had approached the HC and filed a testamentary suit with the will and her claim to establish her right over the property However the alert judge felt something amiss and directed the Mumbai police commissioner to probe the matter which brought out the truthThe court observationJustice GS Patel of the Bombay High Court was hearing the testamentary suit when he said defendantrsquos senior lawyer Rajani Iyer was correct in pointing out that not only was Surversquos conduct extremely suspicious but that the document she sought to prove as true left many questions unanswered There was a discrepancy between the dates on the stamp paper as well as and the date of Narayanrsquos death the judge observedSurversquos lawyer then made two applications before the court mdash one to withdraw the suit and the other for leave to withdraw the lsquowillrsquo the judge rejected theseOn August 4 the court directed the commissioner to appoint a DCP rank officer to carry out a probe into the lsquowillrsquo and the stamp paper that was obtained from the treasury in PalgharThe Rs 100 stamp paperThe stamp paper showed two dates mdash November 17 2009 of the Palghar stamp office and December 8 2009 as the date when it was vended in the name of one Mohan Narayan of AndheriHowever it was later found out that the stamp paper was issued by additional treasury office Palghar on November 7 2014 This is significant because the will purports to be of December 14 2009 whereas Narayan died in 2014From her mouthSurve had claimed that she had married Mohan at Wangni in Karjat on March 21 2002 but had no registered document to prove this and her motherinlaw Vasantha and sisterinlaw Uma were against the marriage hence she was staying with her sister in Wangni In 2009 she claimed her motherinlaw came to Wangni after her husbandrsquos demise and asked her to stay with them at their Prabhadevi residenceAfter Mohanrsquos death Vasantha and Uma had a discussion whether to allow her Geeta to continue staying with them and on October 10 2014 the two asked her to leave Geeta saidShe added that she approached the lawyer in the building where the Narayans stayed Star CHS who advised her to procure a succession certificate to establish her right over the property Geeta alleged that the lawyer thought of a plan to prepare Mohanrsquos forged willWhat the cops sayPolice commissioner Datta Padsalgikar said ldquoA case has been registered and investigation is underwayrdquoldquoWe have registered a case at Dadar police station the four accused have been arrested As per the court directive an investigation was conducted and the will submitted by the accused was found to be forged We have already submitted our investigation report to the Bombay High courtrdquo said deputy commissioner of police zone V Paramjit Singh DahiyaAnticipatory bail rejectedFearing arrest by the Dadar police the elder sister had moved an anticipatory bail plea on health grounds and submitted treatment papers claiming that she had not been working during the period in question and had been shocked to learn about her name being dragged in the caseRead Story Bachelors widow usurps SoBo flat worth croresThe court however rejected her application on November 28 directing the Dadar police not to take any coercive step against the applicant till December 15 so that she could approach the HC The matter will come up for hearing on January 7 2017Meanwhile another wanted accused Shailesh Dharod who signed as an executor of the lsquowillrsquo too had applied for anticipatory bail but that was rejected too Hersquos said to have absconded while even the sisters have not turned up before the police The other arrestedBesides Surve Samadhan Pandit alias Sameer Shele 23 Amol Jagatkar 27 and Manish Patil 34 all of whom allegedly helped the maid procure the stamp paper and other things too were arrested and sent to judicial custody