BENGALURU: Despite several warnings issued by authorities, notorious rowdy Lokesh alias Mulama and his associates are allegedly continuing to encroach upon disputed lands and rent out illegal structures constructed on them. The group has now been accused by Kengeri resident Nagamma, who has lodged a complaint against her relative Ashwath Narayan, Mulama, Venkatesh and Muniraju, claiming that they have illegally encroached upon and created a fake sale deed for a plot of land belonging to her.
According to the complaint lodged by Nagamma, her relative Ashwath Naryan and Mulama’s associate Muniraju told her that they will help her in getting the khata of the land belonging to her father-in-law, transferred in her name. Muniraju apparently told Nagamma that she and her children need to sign on a stamp paper for preparing an affidavit and that she would have to spend Rs 35 lakh since the process of land transfer has to be done through court.
Taking their word for it, Nagamma, her daughter Rajeshwari and son Srinivas signed on the stamp paper, the police said. They later showed the photocopy of the paper to someone else and discovered that it is a ‘sale deed’ that said that the property has been sold to Ashwath Narayan and Muniraju for Rs 2 crore and that Rs 5 lakh has been taken by Nagamma as an advance amount for the transaction, a police officer said.
When a shocked Nagamma approached the duo they told her that the original documents are with Rowdy Mulama and that she would have to ask him to return them. “I am scared for myself and the lives of my children. I don’t know to read or write and they have created fake papers by taking my signatures by lying to me. Please help me,” Nagamma said in her complaint.
Mulama, a resident of Rajagopalanagar, is known to build temporary sheds at disputed sites and then give them out on rent, according to the police. He threatens the real owners of the sites and then deputies his associates to collect rent from people living in the sheds. He was recently arrested by the CCB police in one such case in Karihobanahalli. More than 15 cases, including two murders, are registered against him in police stations across the city.