India, May 5 -- The crime branch of the Nashik city police on Sunday arrested a naib tehsildar, Nitin Patil, for his alleged involvement in the housing scam in Nashik city.

A local court remanded him to police custody till May 6.

"During our ongoing investigations, we have found that Patil had approved 31 documents that were forged by some developers and landowners to artificially split land parcels to avoid complying with the state government's mandatory housing policy," said police officials.

These developers and landowners had allegedly connived with unidentified persons to forge documents to split land parcels over 4,000 square meters into small land parcels.

This was done to evade the mandatory 20% reservation of dwellings for Ma...