NOIDA: A day after the Noida Authority suspended two officials of the housing department after two cases of fraudulent sale of properties came to light, a third fake sale has been reported. The Noida police have arrested three persons, including a woman, for illegally transferring a plot in the posh sector 15A in another’s name.
According to the police, the accused, identified as Prem, Prahlad Singh and Sia Ram Sahi, all residents of Delhi, arranged for a fake lease deed of a 450 sqm corner plot in sector 15A. The plot, estimated to be worth Rs 20 crore, originally belongs to Uma Shankar and her husband Panduranga Shankar, who currently reside in Mandakini Enclave in Delhi. The trio, however, was planning to get the plot transferred in Prem’s name.
The matter came to light when Uma Shankar visited sector 15A on Monday and found the lock of the temporary room constructed on the plot broken. When she went to report the same to the Authority, the staff of the housing department told her that an application seeking transfer of her plot had come to the Authority. She then reported the matter to the police. A case has been registered and the police have arrested all three accused.
On Tuesday, two separate but similar incidents of fraudulent sale of properties in Noida had come to light. In one instance, a Meerut-based businessman was duped of Rs 73 lakh. The accused Vidyasagar sold off a plot in sector 20 that he claimed belonged to him to the businessman Rajendra Agarwal. However, at the time of registry, the Authority informed the real owner of the plot, who then reported the same to the police. In the second case, a Delhi-based government employee Anjani Jha was duped of several lakhs by an unknown person who sold him a plot in sector 31 that actually belongs to one Madhu Pasi.
The police have registered cases in all the three matters and further investigations are on. Meanwhile, after the matters came to light, the Authority suspended two of its officials – Shivlal and Manju Rathod – of the housing department.
TNN Dec 15, 2011, 06.31AM IST
