The police have been baffled by what a land-grabber did recently in Bengaluru. A leading publication reported that a land-grabber sold the land, on which a police station stood, to another person as a residential plot. The man who allegedly sold the land was B Shivakumar Swamy.

The Kamakshipalya traffic police were stunned when some men stormed into their police station and ordered the construction workers they had brought with them to build a shed in the compound.

The report states that the police then found out that Swamy had sold the land to D Nagendra Kamath, a realtor, using fake ownership documents a few years back. Swamy had in turn used fake documents to state that a woman had sold the land to him. He has shown that he lives on the property which actually houses a police station.

Kamath reportedly came to the police station on October 11 and threatened to have the building demolished stating he owned the land. Kamath has filed a civil case against Shivakumar alleging that he hasn’t registered the plot in his name yet nor handed over possession.

The police has stated that the court had no idea that the property had a police station and on October 16, they filed an affidavit stating that the land belonged to the government. The police has also filed a case against Shivakumar. The West division police has also filed a case under sections 420 (cheating), 448 (house-trespass), 471 (using as genuine a forged document), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), and 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) of the IPC, adds the report.