Nagpur: City Police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has registered a major cheating case against Deepak Vitthalprasad Dubey, director of Netaji Co-operative Housing Society, and his power-of-attorney holder Rashmi Anurag Joshi. The accused allegedly duped legal heirs by selling nearly 7.72 acres of ancestral farmland in Gorewada using fraudulent documents and unauthorised layout approvals.

The complaint, filed by Pramila Gaikwad, states that the disputed land (Survey No. 30/2 & 31/2, Mouza Gorewada) belonged to her late parents, Shankar and Saraswati Jadhav, and was to be inherited by Pramila and other heirs. The accused reportedly used a single registered sale deed for just one acre to claim ownership of the entire 7.72-acre property, and then prepared a layout map to sell 159 plots between 1993 and 2023. Buyers were misled into believing the land belonged entirely to the housing society.

The current market value of the misappropriated land is estimated at ₹14 crore, making this one of the significant land fraud cases in Nagpur in recent years.

The FIR has been registered under Sections 420 (cheating) and 34(B) (common intention) of the IPC at Mankapur Police Station. The case is being investigated under the supervision of Deputy Commissioner of Police Mahak Swami, with officers from the Economic Offences Wing including PSI Sushma Bisandare, API Upendra Tembhare, Pallavi Turankar, and Vaishali Dharammali handling the probe.

Authorities are examining the financial trails and potential involvement of other parties, as the investigation into this large-scale land scam continues.