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Arrest all accused in housing scam: High Court

Staff Reporter

Don't spare anyone involved in the scandal, CBI told

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to arrest all those involved in the cooperative group housing society (CGHS) scam here.

A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice Vijender Jain and Justice Rekha Sharma issued the direction during the hearing of an application by Gokul Aggarwal, one of the accused arrested by the investigating agency on Monday.

Culprits

The Bench directed the CBI not to spare anyone involved in the scam and to speed up the probe.

It directed the probe agency to file a reply to Aggarwal's application on December 15, the next date of hearing.

In his application, Aggarwal has mentioned the names of 10 persons as culprits who were actively involved in the scam.

Scam

According to the application, they are Ajit Singh, Srichand, S.P. Saxena, Vinod Verma, Mahesh Gupta, Arjun Singh, P.N. Sharma, M.M. Sharma, M.L. Sharma and Surender Solanki.

Earlier, CBI counsel Harish Gulati submitted that the agency had arrested six persons on Monday in connection with the scam.

The six -- Srichand, Ashwini Sharma, Asutosh Pant, Gokul Aggarwal, Anna Wankhade and U.S. Bhatnagar -- were on Tuesday remanded to 10 days' police custody up to December 24 by Additional Sessions Judge Indermeet Kaur Kochhar at the Patiala House courts.

Agency

The scam is being investigated by a special investigation team (SIT) of the CBI on an order by the High Court.

The Court is also monitoring the investigation, and the agency is likely to file the final report on the probe on December 15.

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