Delhi Police EOW arrested a CA and others who posed as DSIIDC officials
New Delhi, March 21
The Delhi Police EOW arrested a chartered accountant (CA) and his accomplices who posed as DSIIDC (Delhi State Industrial Development Corporation) officials and duped citizens.
The accused was identified as Nikhil Arora of Rajouri Garden in Delhi who has been booked under Sections 406, 419, 420, 468, 471 and 120B of the Indian Penal Code for cheating, fraud and criminal conspiracy.
DCP EOW Mohd Ali stated that the accused posed as DSIIDC official and conned citizens in selling industrial plots. He also opened a bank account in the name of Dev Sewa Income Development Company..
As per the case details with EOW, Naresh Jindal from Azadpur in Delhi along with fourteen other victims had filed a complaint with EOW. The complainant Naresh Jindal alleged that he had applied for Industrial Plot of DSIIDC in the year 1998 in the Re-allocation Scheme, but the DSIIDC rejected his application form. In year 2018, accused Vikram Saxena and Ajay Saxena met him and introduced themselves as employees of DSIIDC by showing their identity cards of DSIIDC as well his original application form, which had been rejected earlier by DSIIDC. They lured him to take his rejected plot in lieu of extra expenditure. Alleged persons also guided him to tell other known persons to get their allotted industrial plots. On this, complainant and his six other known persons became ready to pay extra expenditure to get their plots.
The officials added that Vikram Saxena and Ajay Saxena asked them to deposit money for other charges and file charges following which the cmplainant gave Rs. seven lakhs to the alleged persons, but did not get his plot. The others also gave money to them but did not get any Industrial Plot.
The EOW Investigation showed Nikhil Arora in connivance with his associates used to cheat the innocent buyers of Industrial Plots on the pretext of Re-Allocation of Plots of DSIIDC. He opened bank account in the name of DSIDC (Dev Sewa Income Development Company) because initially, the the name of the DSIIDC was DSIDC (Delhi State Industrial Development Corporation), so that victims can be persuaded to the fact that they are getting plots of DSIDC.
The officials added that they started collecting money from the large number of victims in the said bank account of DSIDC on account of re-allotment of plots of DSIIDC that were earlier rejected. The amount of Rs 2.39 crores were transferred from the account of DSIDC to the bank account of M/s Dream House Construction, company of Nikhil Arora.
In this manner, the alleged person in connivance with other accomplices cheated the innocent plot buyers by impersonating themselves as officials of DSIIDC to the tune of Rs. eight crores, officials further said.
The EOW is further investigating the case is to unearth the entire racket.
