DELHI POLICE EOW ARRESTED TWO CHEATS POSING AS DSIIDC OFFICIALS
New Delhi, March 14
The Delhi Police Economic Offences Wing (EOW) arrested two for allegedly cheating buyers in the pretext of reallocation of plots of DSIIDC (Delhi State Infrastructural Industrial Development Corporation).
The accused were identified as Vikram Saxena, a resident of Dehradun in Uttarkhand and Mithun Bhatnagar alias Mudit Kumar of Saharanpur in UP.
The accused were booked under Sections 406, 419, 420, 468, 471 and 120B of the Indian Penal Code for cheating, fraud and criminal conspiracy.
The EOW stated that Naresh Jindal from Azadpur in Delhi along with fourteen other victims had filed a complaint with EOW.
DCP EOW Mohd Ali stated that the accused in connivance with other accomplices, cheated the innocent plot buyers by impersonating themselves as officials of DSIIDC alluring them on the pretext of reallocation of plots of DSIIDC.
The EOW stated that in the complaint, it was alleged that he had applied for Industrial Plot of DSIIDC in the year 1998 in the reallocation 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 and showed him their identity cards of DSIIDC and 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 alleged duo had also asked them to deposit money for other charges and file charges. Subsequently, the complainant gave Rs. 7, 00,000/- 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 officials added that Vikram Saxena used to work as an agent at DSIIDC and help the persons to complete their file work. He came to know that in 1996, DSIIDC launched a scheme for Industrial Plots in Patparganj and at that time the name of the DSIIDC was DSIDC (Delhi State Industrial Development Corporation). In order to cheat persons, they started a company in the name of Dev Sewa Income Development Company (DSIDC) and opened a bank account in the name of DSIDC in IndusInd Bank, Rajouri Garden, Delhi. They got the list of names and addresses of rejected applicants of this scheme from the official website of DSIIDC. He along with his brother Ajay Saxena and brother-in-law Mithun Bhatnagar started contacting the rejected applicants by impersonating themselves as DSIIDC officials.
The officials further stated that they gave assurance to innocent plot buyers to re-allot the plots for which they had applied. They started taking demand drafts in the name of DSIDC from them and deposited the same in account of DSIDC (Dev Sewa Income development Company). In this manner, accused persons cheated the large number of victims to the tune of Rs. Eight crores.
The EOW is further investigating the case to unearth the entire racket.
