Panchkula, Nov. 3 -- In a bid to evade police action in multiple property fraud cases, a Panchkula man allegedly went to the extent of getting a missing person complaint registered against himself at Sector 7 police station. However, the economic offences wing (EOW) eventually tracked him down and arrested him for allegedly cheating people of crores of rupees through forged agreements to sell.

EOW in-charge Tejinder Pal Singh said that the accused's father had lodged a missing person report for him to evade the police.

The accused, identified as Anmol Arora, a resident of Sector 8, Panchkula, allegedly gained people's trust by claiming close connections with some of the city's well-known property dealers. He would lure people into inves...