India, July 15 -- After he was arrested last year for selling government land in Vasai to builders using forged documents, former corporator Sitaram Gupta has been nabbed in a similar fraud. A June 27 case registered by the Naigaon police against Gupta for selling 6,000 square metres of land owned by the Christian community to construct an illegal building led to his arrest yesterday.

According to Sanjay Hazare, senior police inspector of Naigaon police station, the two builders who had bought the land from Gupta and were constructing the illegal buildings, got into a dispute regarding money, after which they approached the police.

On investigation, the police found that the property was owned by the Citizen Co-operative Housing Society...