MUMBAI, Sept. 2 -- The director of Ostwal Builders Pvt. Ltd., arrested on Sunday for defrauding several people by selling them flats with fake construction permits, was remanded to police custody for two days after he was produced before a local court on Monday. According to the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mira Bhayander Vasai Virar (MBVV) police, the accused, Umraosingh Ostwal, received permissions to build a four floor building, Ostwal Paradise, in Nayanagar, Mira Road. Instead, he constructed a seven-storey tower, and the police suspect that the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) may have played a role in the fraud. Initially, in 2005 and 2006, Ostwal Builders got construction permissions from the MBMC and then built five buildings, a shopping centre. The sixth building, constructed in 2007, was built seven storeys tall, despite having the permissions only for four. One of the residents, Ranjit Jha, the secretary of Ostwal Paradise, said, "During the construction, many maps were manipulated and flats were sold using fake documents." Residents of the building grew suspicious when years after getting their flats, they had still not gotten the conveyance deed to their apartments. Jha said that once they obtained the building documents through an RTI, they realised that the buildings were built and sold on the basis of fake documents. To appease residents, Ostwal signed an MoU with them in 2019, claiming that he would soon provide them with the conveyance deed to their flats. Jha said that the deeds never came, and instead, Ostwal began constructing another building which eats into the space which should have been used for the flats of building No.6. Jha finally filed a complaint in May 2024, after which the police registered an FIR against Ostwal. An EOW officer said, "We have sent a notice to the MBMC to get the permissions given to the accused." He added that the EOW will then verify whether the documents are real or fake....