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NEW DELHI: GL Sethi, a Britain-based Indian, taught for nearly four decades in London, but the dream of owning a house in New Delhi cost him a significant chunk of his life's savings. Today the 70-year-old professor of political science, who is a cancer patient, is running from pillar to post to have the land mafia here put behind bars. Sethi, who always keeps an inhaler next to him to ease asthma attacks, has turned his two-bedroom Dwarka apartment, mostly occupied with books on spirituality and sociology, into ground zero - for waging a battle against unscrupulous builders and real estate agents, whoallegedly duped him of nearly Rs.5 millionon the pretext of giving him an excellent deal. The grey-haired man said since he was a frequent flier to India, he decided a few years ago to buy a house in New Delhi. He said he blindly trusted his nephew KK Nagpal, a bank employee, who ended up cheating him. "Nagpal introduced me to one RP Chhabra, a real estate agent in west Delhi. Chhabra further introduced me to one Gulshan Chanana, director of Lakshay Estate Builders Pvt Ltd, in 2004 saying that Chanana owns a property in Subash Nagar and wants to sell it off for Rs.5.6 million. Chhabra assured me that it was a good deal," Sethi, who once taught at Kirori Mal College here, told IANS. In 1966, he moved to London where he lectured at the University of Westminster. "When I said I was not in a position to pay the full amount, Chhabra asked me to transfer the possession of my five ...