: a man moves into the first-floor of a two-storey house in Southeast Delhi and, soon, tells the house owner to steer clear of his property. Taken to the police, he shows what he claims are power of attorney papers, through which the landlord purportedly ‘transferred’ the entire property to his name.

The papers were found forged, and the man has been arrested.

The police have identified the tenant (accused) as Rajesh Pandey, who tried to dupe his house owner, Jagdish Prasad Sharma, of the property at Saurabh Vihar in Jaitpur, Southeast Delhi.

According to Sharma’s complaint to the police, Pandey, who owns a fleet of auto-rickshaws in the Capital, came to Delhi about three years ago and took the first-floor of his house on rent. Sharma lives on the ground floor of the same building.

A senior officer said the fraud came to notice recently when the landlord went up to keep some items on the first-floor but the accused, Pandey, stopped him at the entrance. “He asked the landlord where he was going, and when Sharma said he was going to his own house, Pandey told him that it was his house now as Prasad had transferred the entire building to his name,” the officer said.

Sharma approached Jaitpur police and lodged a complaint against Pandey. When the police confronted Pandey, he produced the power of attorney papers, claiming that Sharma had transferred the property in his name. To strengthen his case, Pandey has also taken electricity and MTNL phone connections in his name at the building and showed these documents, too, to the police, the officer said

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