Coimbatore: The Thudiyalur police arrested a pawnbroker on Monday for attempting to cheat a jewellery shop owner by forging land documents.
The arrested person has been identified as N Muthukumar, 38, of Rathinapuri in the city.
N Ramesh, 52, of VKL Nagar in Thudiyalur, owner of Kajalakshmi Jewellery on Big Bazaar Street, had lodged a complaint with the Thudiyalur police. “Muthukumar had borrowed Rs 75 lakh from Ramesh in 2015. He had handed over two land documents to Ramesh. Value of the properties were about Rs 9.95 lakh. On July 21, 2019, Muthukumar gave a cheque worth Rs 69.74 lakh to Ramesh, who deposited it in a private bank. When the cheque bounced, Ramesh filed a case against Muthukumar,” a police officer said.
“Meanwhile, Muthukumar and his family members hatched a conspiracy and lodged a complaint with the Thudiyalur police, claiming that he had lost the two land documents while travelling from Thudiyalur to Vellakinar. He also gave an advertisement in a vernacular daily about the missing documents. Based on the complaint, he received non- traceable certificate from the Thudiyalur police. Muthukumar forged the two documents and attempted to transfer the properties to his father last November,” the officer added.
Based on Ramesh’s complaint, police registered a case against Muthukumar under sections 177 (furnishing false information) and 471 (using as genuine a forged document or electronic record) and 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) of the Indian Penal Code on Monday and arrested him.