Sama Shah and Sejal Desai were arrested for property fraud.
Vadodara: Two trustees of Vallabh Seva Trust and Indira Betiji Manav Kalyan Trust, who were booked on October 4 for cheating
and criminal conspiracy, were arrested on Saturday.
Sejal Desai and Sama Shah were arrested for selling late spiritual leader Indira Betiji’s property by falsely claiming it as theirs.
According to police, the duo and third accused Dharmesh Mehta, who lives in Delhi, took the money from complainants Kamla
Lad and Mahendra Dhruv and siphoned it off in the name of trusts. The controversy over the property of the late spiritual leader
had been going on for some time, but it surfaced when Lad and Dhruv approached police against the three trustees.
The arrested duo told cops that they had sold the house to Lad and Dhruv as per the late spiritual leader’s will. They said that
after her death, the property was transferred in the trust’s name which was also mentioned in the will. However, police are yet
to ascertain who possesses the will in question.
“The accused are claiming that they had made the will in January 2015, but they are not revealing who all were witness to the
will or through whom they had got it made. They had also made affidavits of relatives of the spiritual leader, but its authenticity
can only be known after the verification,” a police official said.
Shah and Desai were sent to police custody till October 9 by chief judicial magistrate on Saturday.
Cops said that the duo will be interrogated about the two trusts which they had formed in Delhi and which other properties of
the late spiritual leaders have been transferred in the trust’s name according to the will which they are claiming about
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