Pune: A family in Saswad has been charged with fraud after allegedly accepting an advance payment of ₹20 lakhs for a land sale, only to later sell the same property to different buyers.

The complaint, filed by Vishal Vinodrao Kukde (42) at the Market Yard Police Station, led to the registration of a case against Anita Prakash Borkar (63), her son Indrajit Borkar, and daughter Sayali Phargade.

The family is accused of cheating Kukde by taking an advance payment and subsequently selling the land to other parties without his knowledge.

According to the police, the Borkar family had initially agreed to sell 8 acres and 26 gunthas of land in Saswad to Kukde for ₹5.25 crores. In September 2022, they accepted ₹20 lakhs as an advance and issued a receipt (Visar).

However, the family later finalized the sale of the property to Ramesh Laxman Borawake of Saswad and others, registering the deal at the Saswad sub-registrar's office.

Kukde alleges that the family misled him and defrauded him of ₹20 lakhs. The case is currently under investigation by Assistant Police Inspector More.

Recently a female real estate agent Nigar Malik Shaikh and her daughter Alisha Shaikh (residents of Brahma Angan Society, Kondhwa) had defrauded a businessman Shivraj Haider Rashir Ali Rizvi (aged 44, resident of Wanawadi) of ₹2.6 million under the pretext of selling a flat at a discounted price by gaining sympathy as a widow.

When the businessman demanded his money back, she allegedly threatened him in the name of local goons.