CHENNAI: Central Crime Branch sleuths have arrested a former assistant public relations officer of the State Secretariat for allegedly selling her late owner's house in Vyasarpadi on the pretext of being his legal heir. Inquiry revealed that the house in Sharma Nagar belonged to Loganathan, who had been an employee of B C Mills. He rented the house, allotted to him by the Tamil Housing Board, to Jidha Maria Fathima in 1982. When he died a decade later, Fathima prepared a forged legal heir certificate, claiming to be his daughter, and transferred the ownership of the house in her name. Last year, she sold the house for Rs 22 lakh. On learning about the duplicity, Loganathan's daughter, Vijayakumari, lodged a complaint with the CCB. A special team, headed by ACP J Chandrasekharan, arrested Fathima at Kodungaiyur. During questioning, it came to light that the woman had worked as assistant PRO at the Directorate of Information and Public Relations in the Secretariat before retiring three years ago.
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