A deputy excise and taxation commissioner of the Haryana authorities was arrested in Zirakpur in Punjab on Tuesday for allegedly promoting a lifeless man’s property in Gurugram’s Sector-54 for ₹3.4 crore by forging paperwork, police stated.
The accused was recognized as Saroj Devi, 50, a resident of Sector 55 in Gurugram, police stated. She joined authorities service in 2004 and was lately transferred to Narnaul in Mahendragarh district from Bahadurgarh in Jhajjar, they added.
In response to police, the plot initially belonged to Anurag Birla, who had bought it from an actual property agency for ₹18.21 lakh and acquired an allotment letter in 2004 adopted by a possession letter in 2005. Birla died in 2013. As his youngsters had been settled overseas, the possession switch couldn’t be pursued on the time, they added.
Police stated Birla’s son, Rishabh Birla, later tried to switch the plot within the title of his mom, Sikha Birla, however didn’t comply with up on the matter. In 2023, Rishabh was notified of building exercise on the plot and approached the true property agency, which knowledgeable him that the property had been bought to Neena Chawla for ₹3.4 crore by means of a conveyance deed dated July 26, 2021.
Sandeep Turan, public relations officer of Gurugram police, stated Rishabh filed a criticism, following which a case of dishonest and forgery was registered at Sector-53 police station on February 16, 2024, and the Financial Offences Wing (EOW) initiated an investigation. “EOW discovered that the deputy commissioner bought to know in regards to the plot and had connived with Sutikshan Saxena, now deceased, affiliated to an actual property agency, to organize a solid allotment letter on the idea of which she bought the conveyance deed ready within the title of her and an affiliate, Raj Bala, to promote it fraudulently,” Turan stated.
Police stated Saroj Devi confessed to receiving ₹1.7 crore from the deal, whereas the remaining quantity was shared between Raj Bala and Saxena. The investigation towards Bala is ongoing, and he or she will likely be arrested quickly, police stated.
