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Housing scam, more arrests

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, MARCH 16. The Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police have arrested five more DDA employees for allegedly collecting crores of rupees from the corporation by filing fake applications for refund of money.

Nine cases have been registered against Accounts Officers J P Gupta and H R Sharma, Assistant Accounts Officer Dinesh Kumar Minocha, Assistant Director S C Chug and Accountant Mahender Kumar for fraudulently issuing refund cheques, Deputy Commissioner of Police (EOW) Dinesh Bhatt said today.

Delhi Development Authority (DDA) had announced a scheme in 1999 under which the original allottees of some of its flats became eligible for a refund.

However, most allottees remained unaware of the scheme and some property dealers allegedly filed fake applications in their name and collected crores of rupees in collusion with a few bank and DDA officials.

The EOW has so far arrested nine DDA officials, four bank officials and 18 property dealers in connection with the scam.

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