The Economic Offence Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch on Wednesday arrested a builder on charges of duping a number of persons of over Rs 4 crore on the pretext of providing them duplex houses to them in Jatni.
Complaint Amiya Kumar Patnaik, in his FIR lodged with the EOW, has alleged that Maheswar Sahu, owner of MX Infra Limited, had taken a total of Rs 45 lakh from him in installments between 2016 and 2018 to give him a duplex house at Uttermundamuhana in Jatni. The builder had assured Patnaik to hand over the duplex by February 14, 2017, but he did not even start any construction work by the promised date.
The builder had also assured that the land for the project was litigation free, but the complainant later discovered the said plot allotted to him was sold to the builder by one Premananda Mohapatra, MD of Golden View Infrastructure even though he had mortaged it to the Indian Overseas Bank. The complainant also mentioned in his FIR that the builder has duped 12 other intending buyers including him to provide duplex in the same project and in doing so, he has collected more than Rs 4 crore from them.