New Delhi: Delhi Police on Monday made the second arrest in connection with alleged irregularities over draw of lots for allotment of 5,000 DDA flats by booking a 34-year-old man whom they claimed "planned and executed" the fraud.
Deepak Kumar (34), a resident of West Delhi's Paschim Vihar, was placed under arrest today. He was being questioning by sleuths of Economic Offenses Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police's Crime Branch for the past two days, Additional Commissioner of Police (EOW) S B K Singh told PTI.
"He is responsible for the planning and execution of the whole fraud," Singh said.
With this, Delhi Police has arrested two persons in the case, the first being a former bank employee Laxmi Narayan Meena, who was remanded in police custody till January 17.
Meena, who was taken to Rajasthan's Jhunjhunu village, had allegedly submitted 177 application forms using documents obtained fraudulently.
Police claimed he had collected details of the villagers for submitting application forms for DDA flats. The EOW was investigating into a complaint filed on December 16 which claimed that some property dealers had entered into a conspiracy to corner flats reserved for Dalits by submitting forged documents.
A case under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code dealing with cheating by impersonation, inducing delivery of property, forgery and using as genuine a forged document has been invoked against Kumar. Meena was also charged under similar provisions.
A number of allottees in Rajasthan were even unaware that they were alloted the flats and admitted that some people from Delhi who came to their villages had taken their signatures in DDA forms. In some cases, applicants did not even know that applications were submitted in their names.
According to police, Kumar allegedly collected the forms and applications from Meena and other officials and submitted to DDA.
Meanwhile, the EOW of Delhi Police's Crime Branch, conducted raids at premises of some property dealers in Delhi and Rajasthan after interrogation of Meena, who was arrested on Friday.
Raids were conducted in Khanpur in south Delhi, Dwarka in south-west Delhi besides other places in the capital and Udaipur and Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan, a senior police official said, but refused to provide details.
Sources said Meena was taken to Jhunjhunu for corroborating the statement given by him to police. Meena's arrest came after an "allottee" from Rajasthan's Jhunjhunu informed police that he had not applied for the flats built by
DDA.
Meena, who hails from Jhunjhunu, had allegedly applied for DDA flats in the name of a person in his village using forged documents like caste certificates and PAN cards, the official said, adding he allegedly prepared forged documents
and paid the money himself for applications, they said.
The police has also seized the software used by Delhi Development Authority (DDA) for draw of lots for over 5,000 flats in the national capital and has sent it to Hyderabad- based Forensic Laboratory to find out whether it was tampered
with to help rig the draw.
They said they were looking into a possible role of any DDA official hailing from Rajasthan in the alleged "rigging" in the draw of lots.
Kumar, who claims to be a law graduate, allegedly collected details of people belonging to the SC-ST category in Jhunjhunu from Meena, sources said.
Sources also claimed that Kumar was into the business of
money lending.
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