TNN | Updated: Feb 23, 2018, 09:00 IST
PUNE: The city police on Thursday night arrested a man from Junnar, about 102km from here on Pune-Nashik highway, for preparing fake Aadhaar cards of two elderly women in an attempt to usurp massive tracts of land owned by them. |
Satyavan Machchindra Pansare (38) wanted to use the women’s fake identification documents for transferring the land parcels in his name without the knowledge of the two, who stay in separate bungalows in the Deccan Gymkhana area.
The plots owned by the two women, daughters of a late scientist from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), were in Junnar.
The police said Pansare, in the process of creating the fake Aadhaar cards, missed out on changing the residential addresses of the two women. As a result, the cards reached their home. Surprised, the women approached the police.
Following an investigation and verification process, the police traced the fraud to Junnar and arrested Pansare. A complaint was lodged by the son of one of the two women.
Deccan Gymkhana police inspector Arun Avhad told TOI that both the women are senior citizens and aged between 79 and 81 years. The son of one of them is a software engineer, who stays with his mother.
Investigations revealed that their father had bought vast tracts of land in Junnar for a project. But he passed away after the land procurement process was over. “His daughters did not know much about the land parcels. Pansare came to know about the unutilized land parcels and decided to usurp them,” said Avhad.
Cyber crime inspector Radhika Phadke investigated the case by way of the reverse verification process and found that the cards were prepared in an Aadhaar centre in Junnar.
“The police then traced the women, whose photographs were used on the cloned cards. They then told the police that they were asked to pose for photographs at the Aadhaar card centre by Pansare,” Avhad said.