Mumbai: A 47-year-old man from Bhuleshwar has registered a case against his nephews and gangster Chhota Shakeel’s brother-in-law Salim Qureshi alias Salim Fruit for allegedly submitting forged documents to avoid paying full stamp duty on the purchased property and thus causing a loss to the state exchequer.
According to the police, the case was registered based on a complaint lodged by one Mohammed Rafique Ibrahim Tambe, a resident of Null Bazaar in Bhuleshwar, against his nephews — Jubaida Chougule, Mohammed Hanif Abdul Gafoor Tambe, Shamim Aslam Chougule, Azim Abdul Gafoor Tambe, Salim Abdul Gafoor Tambe, Qaiser Abdul Wahab Tambe, Irfan Abdul Gafoor Tambe, Salim Abdul Rehman Chougule — and the purchaser of the flats Chhota Shakeel’s brother-in-law Salim Fruit.
Salim Fruit was arrested by the National Investigating Agency (NIA) on August 4 for allegedly extorting money from city builders and passing it on to his bosses in the Dawood Ibrahim gang.
In the First Information Report (FIR) registered on Monday at Dadar police station, Mohammad Rafique Ibrahim Tambe claimed that he and his cousins owned property at Bhandari Street in Masjid Bunder. “In June 2021, some tenants of the building asked him if he had sold the property. They even showed him a lawyer’s notice they had received saying 50% of the building was sold to Salim Fruit,” said a police officer from Dadar police station.
Tenants were also asked to pay rent to Salim Fruit, claiming that he had a 50% share in the property. The complainant was shocked to know that his nephews had sold a substantial share in the property, so he decided to visit the registration office at Dadar where the conveyance deed was registered.
The complainant learnt that the property was sold for ₹21 lakh by using forged documents like fake tenant receipts, wrong tenant list, duplicate gumasta license and duplicate documents relating to electricity supply were submitted during the registration. “Such fake documents were submitted to cheat the state government by paying lesser stamp duty and thus cause loss to the state exchequer. They also cheated me by selling the property with the help of fake documents,” the complaint alleged.
“We have registered a case against nine people for cheating, forgery, forgery of valuable security, forgery for the purpose of cheating, using as genuine a forged document, criminal conspiracy and common intention,” said Mahesh Mugutrao, senior police inspector, of Dadar police station.