coimbatore the district crime branch has registered a case against six people from chennai for cheating a local realtor to the tune of rs 977 crore police have formed a special team to nab the six members of a familyk thangavel of siruvani main road in madampatti engaged in real estate business had lodged a complaint against the six the complaint said that chairman of the tamil nadu teachers development housing and welfare trust viswanathan his son v sudhakar and directors of sa foundation private limited lakshmipathi venkat kupe viswanathan muthu narayanan anitha sudhakar and kowsalya viswanathan approached him in 2011 to buy a few acres of land at perur chettipalayam in coimbatoreviswanathan had promised to give thangavel rs 650 per sqft of land if the project is successfully completed with the help of thangavel they bought 642 acres of land in sudhakars name in june 1 2011 they bought 271 acres of land was bought at perur chettipalayam in december 2012 viswanathan converted the land to 165 plots 246408sqft and prepared layouts he sold 71 sites for rs 679 crore and gave rs 90 lakh to thangavel as his share thangavel had also invested a few crores of rupees to buy the land as per the agreement viswanathan had to give thangavel rs 106776800 but he received only rs 90 lakh a police officer said quoting from the complaintviswanathan and his family members cheated him of rs 9 7776900 thangavels complaint saidbased on the complaint police have registered a case against the six people under section 406 criminal preach of trust 420cheating and 34 acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention of the indian penal code