IPS Naveen Kumar, son detained in property dispute case

HYDERABAD: Naveen Kumar, the joint director of the Telangana Police Academy, along with his son have been detained in the ongoing investigation of illegally occupying the house of a retired IAS officer.

The police are investigating into the allegations that Naveen and his family tried to occupy the house of former IAS officer Bhanwar Lal in Jubilee Hills. CCS police had in December 2023 questioned Naveen Kumar in the case and issued a notice. Naveen Kumar's brother and sister in law have already been arrested in connection with this case.

Background

Bhanwar Lal’s wife Mani Lal, the complainant in the case said that her husband leased his house to a person named Sambasiva Rao in November 2014 for five years. After Lal retired in June 2019, he asked Rao to vacate the house, which he promised to do by December.

Meanwhile, Lal learned that Naveen Kumar, who introduced him to Rao, was also staying in the same house without prior information and was not paying rent, due to which the occupants were asked to immediately vacate the premises.

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But it was alleged that Rao did not vacate the house and stopped paying the rent as well.

In September 2020, Rao sent four post-dated cheques to Lal, one of which bounced. After much persuasion, Rao transferred the funds to Lal’s account, but the three other cheques also bounced, following which Lal approached the court over the cheque bounce.

Rao sent legal notices to Lal, claiming to have spent Rs 11.30 lakh besides having paid Rs 11 lakh in rent and further, giving Rs 38 lakh cash towards their house construction at Alwal, along with copies of the alleged fake agreement and payment receipts.

Mani Lal, in her complaint, said that Rao and Kumar subjected her husband to stress, resulting in ailments and immobility, necessitating hospital treatment. Despite this, they initiated legal proceedings using forged signatures and fabricated documents, she alleged. Bhanwar Lal's wife accused Bhanwar Lal's wife of creating fake documents and forging signatures, and arrested them.