NAVI MUMBAI, Dec. 18 -- The police have registered two separate cases of alleged land fraud involving Rs.3.4 crore, exposing what police officers say is a pattern of cheating in property transactions in Taloja, Panvel. In both cases, the accused sold plots that had already been sold years earlier and had even been mortgaged with national banks. No arrests have been made so far. According to the Taloja police, the first victim, Rizwan Ahmed Sheikh, 30, a construction professional from Mumbra, alleged that he and his associates were cheated of Rs.1.90 crore. Sheikh told the police that he had been sold an approximately 2,700 sq.ft plot in Taloja Phase 2, but soon afterwards, he noticed that a bank had set up banners to auction the land. He then approached the bank and found that he had been duped since the land belonged to the bank. Investigations revealed that the accused, Ramesh Ramchandra Kalyankar, 67, and an accomplice had sold him the plot in February this year, even though the land had been sold in 2004 and even been mortgaged for a loan. Kalyankar's name came up again in a similar case. The second complainant, Mehmud Makbul Husen, 55, a real estate agent residing in Taloja filed a complaint with the police that he had been cheated of Rs.1.50 crore. He too had been sold a 174-sq.m plot in Taloja in April 2024. Investigations revealed that the land had originally been sold in 2004 and was subsequently mortgaged with a private bank in Mumbai. The police said that Kalyankar, and two more accomplices, have been booked in the case....