Mohali, Sept. 26 -- Deputy commissioner (DC) Komal Mittal on Thursday deployed a decoy customer to trap and arrest two fraudsters accused of selling prime land worth Rs.9 crore using forged documents.

The accused have been identified as Varinder Singh Brar, a property dealer, and Gurlal Singh of Aklia Kalan, Bathinda, who posed as the landowner, Meharbant Singh Dhillon.

DC Mittal said, "We received a complaint from a Chandigarh resident that their eight-kanal land had been fraudulently sold by two imposters. Upon investigation, it was found that the accused had forged Aadhaar, PAN card and other documents, using the real owner's details but replacing the photograph and date of birth. They then posed as the genuine owner and sold the lan...