PUNE: The Kondhwa police on Wednesday booked two realtors for cheating a 38-year-old woman by preparing forged documents of her flat and mortgaging the property to a financial firm in order to obtain a loan of Rs 27 lakh.The fraud came to light when, in April 2018, Kondhwa resident Parveen Memon received a notice for attachment of her property for not repaying the loan. The loan had been obtained in March 2016.Parveen and her autorickshaw driver husband Rafique Kacchi Memon had purchased a flat, worth about Rs11 lakh, through the suspects Mansoor Ramzan Sayyed and Javed Razak Shaikh since they were known to each other.Kondhwa police sub-inspector Vishnu Wadkar said, “The suspects prepared forged documents of the property and obtained a loan from a financial firm in the name of a painter Umakant Kasbe by offering him a commission amount. The suspects initially paid instalments amounting to about Rs2 lakh. However, they later stopped paying the instalment.”The police officer added that the financial firm later issued a notice to the owner of the flat informing that the property would be attached for non-payment of the loan. It was only then that Parveen realized the realtors had deceived them by mortgaging their property after the forging documents. This despite the fact that the couple had not made any application to obtain a loan.“Initially, a search was conducted to trace Sayyed and Shaikh but their whereabouts were not known. Parveen then took a call to register an FIR against the suspects, accusing them of committing an offence of cheating and forgery among other charges of the Indian Penal Code (IPC),” Wadkar added.Sayyed and Shaikh have been booked under sections 420 (cheating), 465, 467, 468, 471 (all related to forgery), and 37 (common intent) of the IPC.

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