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The Chandigarh Police has busted a gang of a journalist, real estate agents and businessmen who were allegedly involved in kidnapping, cheating and torturing a person and selling his house illegally for Rs 2.9 crore.
Police have arrested a vernacular daily journalist Sanjeev Mahajan and real-estate agents Manish Gupta and Satpal Dagar, who is also brother of a Chandigarh DSP.
Police investigation revealed that in 2017, Sanjeev Mahajan along with Manish Gupta came to know about Rahul Mehta, the sole legal hair of a palatial house located in sector 37-A.
The FIR stated that Sanjeev and Manish took advantage of Rahul Mehta s illness and grabbed his house. Before shifting Mehta to a Rajasthan rehabilitation centre, the duo had allegedly tortured him for over a month to forge his signatures on fake GPA and blank cheques.