A school teacher and her husband were cheated of Rs 80 lakh by a flat owner who sold them an apartment in Kandivli which was already attached by the Income Tax Department. The complainant, Deepali More, found out about it when she approached the housing society to get a no objection certificate. Samta Nagar police have registered a case and booked the flat owner as well as the real estate agent who introduced the complainant with the accused.

More used to live with her husband and 18-year-old daughter in Mira Road and was planning to buy a flat in Kandivli for her daughter’s higher studies. More had, in 2018, sold her Mira Road flat for Rs 67 lakh and was hunting for apartments in Kandivli when Rajiv Mishra, a real estate agent, approached her. Mishra then showed the Mores a 1BHK flat in Thakur Village, Kandivli East that belonged to Sanjeev Pradhan.