Real estate broker held for cheating

Coimbatore: The Sulur police on Tuesday arrested a real estate broker for cheating a man and two women in land transactions.
The real estate broker, Anthony Raj, and owner of a piece of land at Perumampalayam sold the land to three different people over a period of three years.
Anthony Raj was arrested based on a complaint filed by Vaadhi Anbu, a storekeeper at the Sulur Air Force. Anbu bought a 5.5 cent of plot from Subramaniam in April 2008. When Anbu recently placed the land document with a bank to apply for a housing loan, the bank while checking for encumbrances found that the same property was sold thrice — once in 2008 to Anbu and twice in 2011 to Podhumani and Kaniha. Raj had signed as a witness on all three property registration documents.
Police say Raj received a commission of Rs 10,000 per cent each time he fraudulently helped sell the property. “However, legally the land belongs Anbu. Since the two women are victims, we registered a case and arrested the broker,” a sub-inspector of police said. TNN