NAVI MUMBAI, Aug. 2 -- Five persons have been arrested for allegedly selling a 47-guntha plot in Navi Mumbai by impersonating its deceased owners with forged identity documents, cheating buyers of Rs.2.29 crore. The arrests came after a five-month interstate manhunt during which the prime accused allegedly changed identities, phone numbers and hideouts, police said. The accused allegedly targeted a plot in Karanjade belonging to brothers Nathan Eliyahu Chincholkar and Shalom (Selim) Eliyahu Chincholkar, who had migrated to Israel and later died there. Their heirs now live abroad. Police alleged that mastermind Suraj Vasudev Shinde got his father and brother-in-law to impersonate the dead brothers, using fake identity documents to execute the sale before the Panvel-I Sub-Registrar. The land was sold to CBD Belapur residents Prashant and Shreyas Patekar for Rs.2.29 crore, police said. The case was registered at Panvel City police station on February 16. Soon after the offence was registered, Suraj Shinde allegedly fled with relatives involved in the conspiracy. Investigators said the group travelled across Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Goa. A police team led by Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Powar tracked Suraj Shinde to Thivim in Goa, where he was arrested with his uncle, Satish Namdev Shinde, 41, and cousin, Tejas Pramod Surve, 26. Police later learnt that Manish More had already been arrested by Mapusa police. He was formally arrested in the land fraud case on July 24, while Vasudev Shinde was arrested from Dombivli on July 27.HTC...