Dehradun police claimed to have arrested a member of land mafia, Avnish Bansal, a resident of Mohit Vihar, GMS Road, Patelnagar on the charge of land sale fraud .
Bansal had receieved over `70 lakh from Meerut (Uttar Pradesh) native Vishnu Sharan Rastogi against providing him two flats in Race Course area. Avnish had neither provided him with the flats nor returned him the money paid on that count, a complaint filed by Rastogi stated.
On the contrary, Bansal started threatening him that he would have him either murdered or have him tagged with cases of abduction of his child and harrassment of his wife in the police station, said IG/DIG Garhwal Range Sanjay Gunjyal, while interacting with mediaperosns here on Saturday.
The police officer said that Rastogi has registered a complaint against Avnish Bansal in SIT, Garhwal Range. In the complaint, he stated he had approached Bansal as he intended to purchase two flats in Race Course. Bansal had shown him two flats located at Race Course and received `70.50 lakh on that count. But Bansal neither registered the flats in his name nor returned him the money, he said, adding that Bansal had started threatening him that he would either bump him off or implicate him in false cases.
Following probe, SIT found the compliant genuine. The complaint was forwarded to Dalanwala police station to have an FIR lodged against Bansal. A case in Dalanwala police station was registered against Avnish Bansal and his relatives under Sections 467/468/471/420/120b/504/506 of IPC.
Teams were formed to arrest the accused. Avnish Bansal was arrested from Court campus by Dalanwala police.
Investigation revealed that several cases of land forgery and cheating were registered against Bansal in various police station areas of Dehradun and Saharanpur, (Uttar Pradesh).
The IG directed the Patelnagar police station officer to open history sheet of the accused. Moreover DIG/SSP Pushpak Jyoti was directed to book the accused under the stringent Gangster Act. IG Gunjyal announced reward of `5, 000 to the team for cracking the case.