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Goregaon local held for Mhada flat fraud

The crime branch on Saturday arrested a Goregaon resident for allegedly duping people by promising them Mhada houses.

The accused, Kandarp Mahindra Sharma (31), has been booked for cheating, forgery and breach of trust. Several discriminating documents pertaining to the Mhada housing lottery scheme have been seized from Sharma.

Acting on a tip-off, senior inspector of unit 12 Milind Khetle and his staff laid a trap for two consecutive days at Aarey Sub Colony but did not get anything. On Friday evening, the police intercepted a jeep in which Sharma was travelling. “A search of the vehicle did not yield any result, but when the police carried out a search at Sharma’s residence, several documents like empty as well as filled in Mhada lottery
forms, copies of ration cards, ID cards, voter cards, photographs, printers, scanners and Mumbai police character certificates were recovered,” said an officer.

Sharma reportedly approached aspiring buyers at Mhada’s office, promise flats and extracted money.