Jalandhar, July 5 -- The NRI wing of Punjab Police has registered two FIRs against five persons involved in grabbing a prime chunk of lands owned by NRIs based in the United States and United Kingdom (UK), officials said. The cases have been registered under Sections 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust), 465 (for making forged documents), 467 (forgery), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged), 448 (house trespassing) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Jalandhar's NRI police station. The estimated amount of these properties runs in crores, with elderly NRIs settled abroad for past decades being the main targets, the officials added. In one of the FIRs registered on the complaint of 80-year-old UK resident Paramjit Singh Takhar on July 3 at Jalandhar's NRI police station, the accused have been identified as Vikas Sharma alias Cheenu, his two sons Kartik Sharma and Vansh Sharma and Shalinder Syal, all residents of Jalandhar, and Tarwinder Singh, a resident of Amritsar. In another FIR, registered on the complaint of New Jersey resident Inderjit Kaur (75) on July 1, police have nominated both Vikas and his son Kartik. All the accused are presently on the run. AIG NRI wing Harkamal Preet Singh Khakh said the accused had been harassing and financially exploiting NRIs, mainly the elderly, by forging sale deeds, faking financial receipts, obtaining decrees or stay orders from the local courts based on forged documents and revenue papers. AIG Khakh added that the accused reportedly ditched multiple NRIs and the probe is on. "Both FIRs were registered following a detailed probe into the complaints received by Punjab NRIs Commission. The accused have been booked under non-compoundable charges (criminal offences that cannot be settled through a compromise or agreement) and they will arrested soon," Khakh added. In his complaint, NRI Paramjit, who resides in the UK's Middlesex, stated that he had signed the sale deed with accused Vikas and Kartik for the sale of his 35 marlas of plot in Jalandhar's police lines area on February 2, 2024 at Rs.23.50 lakh per marla (Rs.8.22 crore) and the accused were to pay him Rs.1 crore as earnest money. "The date for the execution and registration of sale deeds was fixed on or before November 15, last year. However, the accused and others failed to execute the sale deed," the complainant said. The FIR states that Vikas forged the sale deed using the original stamp paper thereafter filed a civil case in the court. The accused managed to obtain an ex-parte decree from the court," the FIR said. The complainant had already challenged the decree awarded in Vikas' favour and the case is sub-judice. In another FIR, registered on the complaint of Inderjit Kaur, it was stated that accused Vikas and Kartik Sharma entered into a sale agreement on February 8, 2024, with her for sale of her 108 marlas of land in Jalandhar's Pholriwal village at Rs.6 lakh per marla (estimated Rs.6.48 crore). The police probe found that Kartik forged financial receipts and based on these managed to severe ex-parte decree in his favour....