Ghotala.in

DDA scam: Ex-bank official held

A former bank official was on Friday arrested for allegedly applying for DDA flats in the name of another person by using forged documents, the police said.

Laxmi Narayan Meena, a former SBI employee, was arrested by the Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police, a senior police official said.

He was arrested after a person who was allotted a flat in the draw of lots told the police that he had neither applied for DDA flats nor for PAN card.

Meena (54), a resident of Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu, had allegedly applied for DDA flats under the names of several people in his village, sources said.

He even allegedly prepared forged documents and paid the money from his own pocket for applications, they said.

Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat said a case has been registered in this regard but refused to provide the name on whose statement the arrest was made.

“The person who was alloted the flat told the police that he had not taken any loan or applied for PAN card. Upon his complaint, one person has been arrested,” Bhagat said.

Police also seized the software used by Delhi Development Authority (DDA) for draw of lots for over 5,000 flats in the national capital and has sent it to Hyderabad Forensic Laboratory to find out whether it was tampered with to help rig the draw of lots.

Police is also probing whether DDA officials hailing from Rajasthan were involved in “rigging” the draw of lots.

Source / courtesy : NDTV