Mumbai: Architect who died in 2016 ‘designed’ Virar building... in 2019!

Updated On: 18 August, 2023 06:58 AM IST | Mumbai | Priti Khuman Thakur

In the Vasai-Virar house-of-cards scam, probe finds that not only were documents forged, but even dead people’s names and signatures were used to hoodwink both buyers and officials

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The building plans by the architect were forged for Rudransh apartment complex, say cops

In 2019, the brains behind the Rs 3,000-crore house-of-cards submitted to the VVCMC building plans of Rudransh Apartments designed by well-known architect K D Mistry. The civic body, which had given all necessary clearances back then, has only now realised that Mistry had passed away in 2016. Now, his son demands strict action against the conmen for using his father’s name to dupe thousands of innocent families.

The Virar police have so far arrested five men, including Prashant Patil, the mastermind, for erecting 55 residential societies in the jurisdiction of the Vasai Virar City Municipal Corporation (VVCMC) using forged documents and sold flats to nearly 3,500 families. While checking the documents, the cops noticed that the building plan of Rudransh Apartments in Virar East was “designed by K D Mistry”.

Prashant Patil