New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- Jammu and Kashmir Police have arrested an 80-year-old former Ayurvedic doctor from the outskirts of Srinagar for allegedly duping land buyers, most of them Kashmiri migrant Pandits.

The accused allegedly used multiple identities and forged documents to carry out the fraud. He was arrested after a nine-month manhunt, earning the moniker 'Charles Sobhraj of Kashmir' for his apparent ability to evade investigators.

Identified as Somnath Koul, the accused allegedly operated under the names Mohan Lal Dhar, Brijnath Bhat, and Hadinath Dhar.

Police say that Koul fleeced people with promises of selling them land left behind by Kashmiri Pandit migrants like himself for over a decade now.

Koul, now 80, would pose as a lawye...