Four people were booked for allegedly cheating a Maharashtra government official on the pretext of getting him transferred and facilitating the clearance of land, police said on Wednesday.

Vidhyasagar Chavan, who worked in the state town planning department, said when he met the main accused in November 2017, the latter claimed to have good contacts in the Prime Minister's Office and bureaucrats in Delhi, a police spokesperson said quoting the complaint. Chavan then asked the accused to get him transferred from the state secretariat in Mumbai to Ambernath in Thane, she said.