A CBI special court has decided to frame charges against 10 accused, including ex-officials of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), for alleged lapses in the allotment of plots as part of the resettlement of slum dwellers.<\/p>\n
The accused were allegedly involved in allotment of plots in fictitious names under the scheme executed by the Slum and Jhuggi Jhopri Department.<\/p>\n
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge Anoop Kumar Mendiratta fixed May 9 as the date for order on the framing of charge against the accused in the land scam.<\/p>\n
The ten are accused of alleged lapses in the allotment of plots as part of the resettlement of slum dwellers.<\/p>\n
“As such, prima facie all the accused are liable to be charged for offences under section 120 B Indian Penal Code (criminal conspiracy) read with section 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of a valuable security), 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating), 471 (using a forged document as genuine) and 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) (for bribery) of the Prevention of Corruption Act…,” the court said in an order passed Friday.<\/p>\n
According to the charge sheet, during the period 2006-07, Sumer Chand Garg, assistant director, slum up-gradation and relocation department, and Atul Vashisht , upper divison clerk, entered into a conspiracy along with Ashok Malhotra, a food stall vendor, and businessman Ashok Jain and others for allotment the plots in fictitious names.<\/p>\n
The other accused in the case are Ashok Chikara, Lal Mani, Ram Chander Arora, Ravinder Sandhu, Vijay Kumar and Mohan Lal.<\/p>\n
The court after taking note of the statement of prosecution witnesses said: “At this stage even the same reflect that accused Ashok Malhotra in conspiracy with other accused was involved in illegal allotments.”<\/p>\n
The court was hearing a case regarding illegalities in land allotment in respect of slum dwellers of Yamuna Pushta who were evicted and resettled in other areas by the civic agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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