The Crime Department on Saturday arrested a 33-year-old man who had been on the run after allegedly posing as a landowner to safe ₹5.12 crore in compensation from a courtroom for land acquired by the Haryana authorities in 2023 for the growth of Southern Peripheral Street, police mentioned on Monday
Investigators mentioned that the Gurugram police had introduced a ₹5,000-reward on the suspect, recognized as Narender Jonwal, a JJ Colony resident in Delhi. Jonwal was a key suspect within the case and carried out the fraud alongside along with his 5 associates. The 5 had been arrested between July and August final 12 months, whereas Jonwal continued to stay on the run, they added.
In accordance with police, Jonwal and his associates impersonated the precise land proprietor, Brahm Prakash Yadav of Badshahpur, and employed a lawyer to use the procedural loopholes to fraudulently get ₹4.97 crore launched as compensation and ₹15.19 lakh as curiosity in Could 2023.
The matter got here earlier than the courtroom on January 25, 2025, throughout a listening to for different house owners’ compensation claims. The courtroom discovered that an ineligible proprietor had been compensated, and an investigation was ordered. It additionally noticed that the land compensation rip-off was suspected to be value ₹100 crore.
A dishonest and forgery case was quickly registered at Shivaji Nagar police station.
Sandeep Turan, public relations officer of Gurugram police, mentioned Jonwal bought the financial institution demand draft issued from the courtroom on two separate events in Could 2023, and deposited them to a checking account in Nagpur opened fraudulently within the title of Brahm Prakash.
In accordance with investigators, Jomwal’s affiliate Krishna Kumar (50), a resident of Mehrauli, had impersonated the land proprietor earlier than courtroom, whereas Tushar alias Kaku (21) of Jahangirpuri and Dinesh Kashyap alias Rathor (38) of Dwarka cast the proprietor’s id paperwork to open a checking account in his title. The opposite two associates — Pankaj Kumar Kela alias Dharm (47) and Sushil Kumar Darda (48), each from Chhattisgarh — helped them within the course of.
Police mentioned Dinesh bought ₹1.9 crore of the whole proceeds, Sushil and Pankaj bought a complete of ₹25 lakh, Tushar bought ₹9 lakh, whereas Jonwal bought ₹1 crore. The remaining quantity was distributed amongst Krishna and his associates, police mentioned.
They added that Jonwal had been booked in one other case of dishonest and forgery registered in Gurugram.
Senior police officers aware of the case mentioned the Gurugram land acquisition officer had transferred ₹518 crore of undisbursed compensation to acity courtroom in March 2022.
The quantity additionally included the compensation of householders like Brahm Prakash Yadav, who had opted to take the good thing about flooring space ratio (FAR) or switch of growth rights (TDR) as a substitute of financial compensation. The compensation of such house owners ought to have been reversed to the state authorities as a substitute of submitting it to the courtroom, a loophole which was later exploited by these suspects, officers mentioned.
