A real estate businessman in the city was arrested on Wednesday by officials of the Anti Land Grabbing Cell on charges of selling a land reserved for a public park.
Seethapathi, the accused, was arrested based on a complaint by Ukkirapandian that he had paid an aide of the real estate agent Rs 1.86 lakh in 2006 for five and a half cents of land in Kalapatti area of the city, police said.
However, two months after the ‘sale’, he came to know that the site was reserved for a public park and approached the City Police Commissioner’s office for arranging to get his money back, police said.
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The Anti Land Grabbing Cell investigated the case and arrested Seetapathi and remanded him to custody, after producing him before the court, they said.