the 79yearold retired colonel and others bought land from someone pretending to be the ownera 79yearold exserviceman has alleged that he has been cheated by the person who sold him a 60x40 plot of land in hulimavu near bannerghatta southeast bengaluru recentlyretired colonel me fernandez who worked with the indian army purchased a 60x40 plot for rs 7 lakh in 2004 in krishna garden incity layout in chikkammanahalli in gottigere post in hulimavu he got it registered and has been diligently paying his property taxes all these yearsin january this year fernandez got a rude shock when his neighbour who owned a plot next to his land said that someone was dumping debris on their sites when fernandez and other plot owners reached there they found a few men who had come in a couple of suvs claiming that they were the owners of the propertywhen fernandez asked them to prove ownership a man identified by the police as manoharlal k narang claimed that one n ravi was the ancestral owner of the entire property and all the people who thought they owned the land had been cheated by ramesh babu who claimed to hold the power of attorney poa for the land at the time it was sold over the past one week the man identified as n ravi along with his henchmen was dumping debris on our sites with the intention to illegally and forcefully occupy our site said fernandez he and a few other site owners approached the jurisdictional hulimavu police and filed a complaint of cheating by impersonation and criminal trespass against ramesh babu n ravi and manoharlal k narang and his henchmen but the police said it was a civil dispute and they couldnt do anything about it added fernandeza few weeks later while fernandez and a few other site owners were building compound walls around their respective sites the same group of men headed by n ravi charged at them and threatened them with dire consequencesfernandez then approached the bengaluru city police commissioner for recourse he also sent a written complaint to the deputy commissioner of police dcp southeast and the prime ministers office pmothe burden of purchase of property especially in bengaluru lies entirely on the buyer and the sellers are not at all accountable the seller could collude with a number of people including absolute owners real estate marketing firms power of attorneys poa lawyers and auditors etc and cheat gullible sitehome buyers who have no place to complain or address their grievance fernandez told bangalore mirrorfernandez now wants to sell his plot of land to ramesh babu if he is interested to buy it for a reasonable amount but he seems to be disinterested he says maybe they will force all their victims to do a distress sale of their sites and get rid of legal tangles maybe this is their modus operandi fernandez pointed outmeanwhile legal consultants and advocate shaji t verghese lists out a set of documents to be