Police have arrested six persons, including a revenue official and a woman for allegedly duping an NRI of over 30 million rupees under the grab of selling a piece of land to him, which did not exist.

Harbajan Singh Jaspal, who is a UK based NRI said that particularly property dealers had done a deal of selling him a 20 kanal and 2 marla piece of land with him for Rs 18 million on May 18, 2015.

The suspects reportedly said Jaspal that the land belonged to Rajwinder Singh, whose mother Shiv Dev Kaur has the power of attorney, police said.

Jaspal gave 4.5 million rupees through different cheques as advance money, police said. Registry was due on September 9, 2015.

The suspects demanded additional 4.6 million rupees, which he paid, but still the registry was incomplete.

Meanwhile, an official from the revenue office appeared on the scene and assured that the NRI, if he agreed to buy the land at a high price of 20 million rupees (2 million more than the previously settled rate), then the official would ensure that the registry was done, police said.

The NRI later came to know that the fees of stamp papers for the registry were only 2 million rupees and the officials had defrauded him of 5.2 million in this too.

Later, Jaspal realized that he was taken for a ride as the land did not exist at all and the piece that the accused had shown him was actually a road, police said.

A case under Sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 465 (forgery) 467 (forgery of a valuable security, will), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC was registered against the accused, they added

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