The case against the leader of the opposition in Kochi Corporation Council

Kochi City Police have booked Antony Kureethara, leader of opposition in the Kochi Corporation Council, former Sub Registrar Officer, Kochi, and seven others on charges of forgery related to the alleged unauthorized sale of 10 cents of land in the Bazaar. Road, Mattancherry.

The Mattancherry police have registered a case under Sections 468 (punishment for falsifying a document or electronic record with intent to cheat), 471 (use of a forged document as genuine), and 420 (cheating) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita in a complaint filed by. Joseph Stanley, 80, from Mundamveli.

He revealed that the first suspect, VH Babu, who was his manager for about 40 years, conspired to create fake documents and sign them. The property was then sold to the second defendant, MP Kunjumuhammad, before it was transferred to a private company in the city.

Mr. Kureethara, a councilor representing the Fort Kochi division, dismissed the allegations as “politically related”. He said the property was sold by Mr. Stanley to Mr. Kunjumuhammad for R20 lakh as per the rules. “The registration process was done where the complainant lived in 2006 as he was unwell. “I witnessed the sale of policemen, the policemen rushed without a proper investigation based on the complaint filed on October 29,” he said.