By: Express News ServiceBengaluru | November 15, 2025 03:20 PM IST 2 min readAccording to the police, the accused created fake documents "in collusion with the sub-registrar and a computer operator", and sold multiple sites owned by Mukunda without his knowledge.The Bengaluru police have arrested a sub-registrar and a real-estate firm owner in an alleged multi-crore land scam case in Beratana Agrahara, near Bengaluru’s Electronic City, filed three years ago.The Central Crime Branch’s Organised Crime Wing, which took over the case in January 2024, arrested sub-registrar G Roopa and realtor Naveen Kumar on November 6 and 7, respectively.Naveen Kumar, a main accused in the case who had been absconding for three years, was sent to police custody on November 10 for further investigation, according to a police statement on Tuesday.The case was filed in August 2022 based on a complaint by land owner, N Mukunda, against 139 people, who had an oral agreement with the main accused individuals with regard to the development of 107 residential sites on his land.According to the police, the accused created fake documents “in collusion with the sub-registrar and a computer operator”, and sold multiple sites owned by Mukunda without his knowledge. The accused allegedly collected crores of money and cheated him by not paying any money.A case was registered at Parappana Agrahara Police Station regarding the fraud.In June 2023, the prime accused, Venkatesh Naidu, had unsuccessfully approached a city sessions court for anticipatory bail. The court, however, stated that there was a risk of his tampering with documentary evidence if granted bail and mentioned that Naidu had not appeared before the investigating officer or cooperated with the investigation at that time.Story continues below this adMeanwhile, Sub-Registrar Roopa also faced a setback as the court rejected her bail application, dated November 6. She had argued that her role was to register documents in her official capacity, and had no jurisdiction to verify whether the documents were genuine, as stamp duties and registration charges were paid before the documents were placed before her.Stay updated with the latest - Click here to follow us on InstagramTags:Karnataka