Two men have been arrested by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police for allegedly duping a man of Rs 1.90 crore by using forged documents on the pretext of allotment of a Delhi Development Authority (DDA) plot in east Delhi.
The accused have been identified as Prem Shankar Sharma (68) and Rana Pratap Chauhan (72), former employees of DDA, who had taken
Rs 1.90 crores from the complainant for allotment of DDA plot and also issued forged allotment letter.
Police said that the accused are involved in more than 13 such cases. “They targeted victim, especially businessman who were in search of plots. Through their links, they got details about vacant DDA properties and later showed them to their potential targets. They forged documents related to DDA plots and duped people,” police said.
According to Dr O P Mishra, the Joint Commissioner of Police, EOW, a probe was initiated by them on the complaint of one Ashish Sharma, who alleged that the accused duo along with their associate took Rs 1.90 crore from him for allotment of a DDA plot in Krishna Nagar.
“According to the complainant, after showing the plot, the accused told him that the purchase price of the said plot is only Rs 22 lakhs, but he had to spend about Rs 2 crore extra. As the market price of the plot was much higher at that time, he agreed to pay them,” said the Joint CP.
“They took Rs 1.90 crore in cash from him and gave a fake allotment letter on behalf of DDA. When he found out about it, he demanded his money back. The alleged did not return the money but gave him four cheques worth Rs 80 lakhs, which also got dishonoured,” said Joint CP.
“During investigation, the allotment letters, possession letter, NOC and other documents were verified from DDA. It is found that no such allotment letter and other letters were issued by DDA and were indeed forged,” said Joint CP.
“The accused forged documents related to allotments and these authentic looking documents purported to be issued from DDA were provided to the victim. In order to gain the trust of the victim, they made him deposit the amount in a DDA account. In this case, Rs 22 lakhs was deposited in DDA account. When no links of the amount were found by DDA, the same were transferred in the suspense account of DDA,” said Joint CP.
“The accused PS Sharma, a dismissed gardner in the Horticulture branch of DDA, misrepresented himself as working in DDA at the post of Assistant Director and his associate Chauhan was suspended from DDA in 1999 due to his corrupt practices,” the Joint CP added.