Mansoor Khan’s Rs 10-cr plot in Panchgani sold for Rs 50 lakh by impostors
The plot was sold by a woman who posed as Mansoor Khan’s business partner and co-owner of the plot Vinay Rajpal’s mother.
A gang of impostors that sold a plot of land worth Rs 10 crore in Panchgani belonging to filmmaker and actor Aamir Khan’s cousin Mansoor Khan for Rs 50 lakh has been busted.
The plot was sold by a yet unidentified woman and her two accomplices who posed as Mansoor Khan’s business partner and coowner of the plot Vinay Rajpal’s mother Shobha Rajpal, his brother Sachin Rajpal, and his cousin Vaibhav at the registrar’s office.
People of a certain vintage will remember Mansoor Khan as the director of Aamir Khan’s launch film Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak. Apart from giving Bollywood two fine actors in Aamir and Juhi Chawla, the film also introduced the trend of shrinking long titles into abbreviations, in this case QSQT.
Mansoor Khan later moved to a village near Bangalore to start an organic farm. His last outing in Bollywood was as the co-producer of Imran Khan and Genelia D’Souza-starrer Jaane Tu…Ya Jaane Na.
The two men who posed as Rajpal’s brother and cousin and the woman masquerading as Shobha Rajpal are absconding. The cops, however, have obtained their pictures clicked as the part of the process of registering a property and ahunt has been launched to nab them.
The 11000 square meter plot is located in Bhilar village near Panchgani and is jointly owned by Mansoor Khan and Rajpal and was bought in 1985.
Rajpal, a resident of Cuffe Parade, received a call last week week from a friend in Panchgani informing him about a public notice regarding the sale of the plot published in a leading English daily’s Kolhapur edition. The notice was issued by a certain Advocate Ramdas Mane.
Rajpal contacted the lawyer and told him that he, his mother or Mansoor Khan had no intention of selling the plot. To his shock, Mane informed him a few days later that the sale had been completed and the plot was now registered in the name of Dilip Gole and Laxman Bhange. “On January 15 some people tried to forcibly take possession of the plot, but were thwarted by my security staff and we informed the police,” said Rajpal.
The same day Rajpal filed a police complaint against the unidentified woman who posed as his mother with a fake election ID card. He also got hold of a photograph from one of the buyers which was clicked outside the registrar’s office on January 12. “The woman was accompanied by two men whom she introduced as her son Sachin Rajpal and nephew Vaibhav Rajpal. I don’t have a brother named Sachin or a cousin named Vaibhav,” said Rajpal.
Rajpal’s lawyers have now sent a notice to advocate Mane too. Rajpal said he is surprised that nobody in the registrar’s office raised any questions on why a plot worth crores was being sold for just Rs 50 lakh.
A gang of impostors that sold a plot of land worth Rs 10 crore in Panchgani belonging to filmmaker and actor Aamir Khan’s cousin Mansoor Khan for Rs 50 lakh has been busted.
The plot was sold by a yet unidentified woman and her two accomplices who posed as Mansoor Khan’s business partner and coowner of the plot Vinay Rajpal’s mother Shobha Rajpal, his brother Sachin Rajpal, and his cousin Vaibhav at the registrar’s office.
The Satara police have booked six more persons, including a lawyer, who were involved in this meticulously drawn plan, which included publishing a notice in a Kolhapur newspaper inviting objections to ‘Shobha Rajpal’s offer’ to sell the land.
People of a certain vintage will remember Mansoor Khan as the director of Aamir Khan’s launch film Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak. Apart from giving Bollywood two fine actors in Aamir and Juhi Chawla, the film also introduced the trend of shrinking long titles into abbreviations, in this case QSQT.
Mansoor Khan later moved to a village near Bangalore to start an organic farm. His last outing in Bollywood was as the co-producer of Imran Khan and Genelia D’Souza-starrer Jaane Tu…Ya Jaane Na.
The two men who posed as Rajpal’s brother and cousin and the woman masquerading as Shobha Rajpal are absconding. The cops, however, have obtained their pictures clicked as the part of the process of registering a property and ahunt has been launched to nab them.
The 11000 square meter plot is located in Bhilar village near Panchgani and is jointly owned by Mansoor Khan and Rajpal and was bought in 1985.
Rajpal, a resident of Cuffe Parade, received a call last week week from a friend in Panchgani informing him about a public notice regarding the sale of the plot published in a leading English daily’s Kolhapur edition. The notice was issued by a certain Advocate Ramdas Mane.
Rajpal contacted the lawyer and told him that he, his mother or Mansoor Khan had no intention of selling the plot. To his shock, Mane informed him a few days later that the sale had been completed and the plot was now registered in the name of Dilip Gole and Laxman Bhange. “On January 15 some people tried to forcibly take possession of the plot, but were thwarted by my security staff and we informed the police,” said Rajpal.
The same day Rajpal filed a police complaint against the unidentified woman who posed as his mother with a fake election ID card. He also got hold of a photograph from one of the buyers which was clicked outside the registrar’s office on January 12. “The woman was accompanied by two men whom she introduced as her son Sachin Rajpal and nephew Vaibhav Rajpal. I don’t have a brother named Sachin or a cousin named Vaibhav,” said Rajpal.
Rajpal’s lawyers have now sent a notice to advocate Mane too. Rajpal said he is surprised that nobody in the registrar’s office raised any questions on why a plot worth crores was being sold for just Rs 50 lakh.
