Beware if you have given your house to a broker for sale

In a recent shocking case in Vadodara, a real-estate broker and his aides cheated a property-owner, who is currently residing out of Gujarat, by selling the property without the consent of the owner and by forging signatures and documents and also impersonating them in front of the Sub-Registrar and got the sale deed of the house registered.

As per the details, Mr. Omveer Prabhudayal Singh is currently employed at Udaipur, Rajasthan. He and his wife jointly own a flat at Vraj Bhoomi, Vasna Bhayali Road, Vadodara. To sell the property, he got in touch with a real-estate dealer, Mr. Pala Jatinkumar Jayantilal (accused). The broker brought prospective customers, to visit their house to see the property, and it was not feasible for Mr. Omveer to visit Vadodara every time. So, the broker was trusted with the key of the house and a copy of the Aadhar Card for their name to be registered in the City Survey.

On November 11th, Omveer received a phone call informing him that his house was sold and the caller for asking for the possession of the house. The call was a bolt from the blue for them and Omveer rushed to Vadodara and enquired about the matter.
On November 12th, few people came over to his place, and threateningly told him to vacate the house.

Omveer contacted the Sub-Registrar at Akota and procured documents of the illegal sale deed as well as a video of the proceedings of the registration of the sale deed. It was found that the fraudsters had forged Omveer’s and his wife, Jagruti’s Aadhar Card with different people’s photographs. Two unidentified fraudsters impersonated the Singh’s and appeared before the Sub- Registrar, and the broker, Mr. Pala Jatinkumar along with Mr. Thakkar Rahul Ashwinkumar (accused) were present as witnesses and fraudulently got the sale deed of the house registered in the name of Mr. Vishal Vipinchandra Malkan (accused) for Rs. 18,50,000 by forging signatures and thereby cheating Omveer of his property which actually cost him around 50,00,000.

The accused in connivance with each other also opened a bank account in the name of his wife, Jagruti, using forged documents, by impersonating and forging signatures and encashed cheques shown in the sale deed.

Mr. Omveer has pressed charges against the 3 alleged accused and the two unidentified fraudsters for their offenses under sections 34,463,464,466,468,471,420,416,419,503 and 114 of IPC. 

Furthermore, they will be writing to the Chief Minister of Gujarat regarding the same. The investigation is yet to begin regarding this matter.