A Naivasha based land property broker was on Thursday remanded in custody by a Nakuru Law Court after he issued a forged land title deed certificate to the court during a property dispute case mentioning.
Chief Resident Magistrate James Mwaniki ordered that Herman Kamau, 47 be remanded in custody for two weeks to give police time to carry out investigations in a land title deed forgery incident.
The accused was a defendant in a case in which his step brother Alex Njoroge was seeking court orders to evict him from a commercial piece of land in Teachers Estate in Nakuru town after having allegedly fraudulently accessed land ownership documents.
The court had heard that the accused who was a step son to the late father of the complainant Philip Njoroge had been occupying the property as a caretaker while benefiting from rental units on a mutual understanding basis.
However he started making claims over the property after defying requests to vacate the property which the rightful beneficiary intended to develop further.
The prosecution had told the court that the complainant had in possession with him all documents to prove that he was the rightful beneficiary of the property including death certificates of his parents, land transfer certificate and title deed and challenged the defendant to prove that the title deed he produced in court was not a forged document.
The Magistrate postponed the case indefinitely and agreed with the prosecution that the defendant be remanded until the prosecution obtains evidence of the fraud accusations claiming that he was in a position to interfere with investigations if left free.
He will however be required to help police with investigations while still in custody and be released on bond or cash bail upon application when police are satisfied with investigations.