CHENNAI: Sleuths from Chennai's Crime Branch Criminal Investigation Department arrested Raveendranath, a deputy inspector general of the Registration Department in Salem region, for allegedly facilitating the transfer of a property via forgery, when he was serving as registrar.

While serving as the district registrar in South Chennai last year, Ravindranath reportedly enabled a transfer of five acres of land in Varadharajapuram near Tambaram, worth several crores of rupees, in the name of Kandammal using forged documents.

The property in question belongs to a Syed Ameen of Varadharajapuram, CB-CID officials said, adding that few others from the revenue department have already been arrested in the case.