Three residents of Sector 41 have been allegedly duped of ₹17.8 crore after being trapped in a property fraud by two Noida-based suspects, police stated on Saturday.
Investigators stated the victims, Kapil Sharma and his brothers Hitender Sharma and Hitesh Sharma, have been approached in July 2024 by the suspects with a proposal to promote 11.33 acres of agricultural land in Ghughera village of Palwal. The suspects took the trio to the land web site and later to their actual property agency workplace in New Palam Vihar Part-I, the place they produced a sale deed and mutation paperwork to determine possession.
Police stated an settlement to promote was executed on August 1, 2024, following which the victims paid ₹12 crore to the suspects. They have been later requested to pay growth and registry fees, resulting in an extra cost of ₹5.8 crore.
Investigators stated the suspects delayed execution of the sale deed for practically a yr and ultimately stopped responding. Upon conducting their very own inquiry, the victims found that the suspects had impersonated the precise landowners and that the sale deed and mutation paperwork have been cast.
A senior police official stated the fraud got here to mild when the suspects failed to seem for property registration regardless of repeated assurances. “Kapil and the 2 others tried to contact the suspects, however they came upon that every one the contact numbers utilizing which the 2 suspects have been speaking with them have been switched off,” he stated.
Police stated the victims later visited the suspects’ workplace, which was discovered shut. They traced the suspects’ everlasting residences in Sector 62 and Sector 75, solely to study that these properties had additionally been bought and the suspects have been untraceable.
The trio filed a criticism on the Gurugram commissioner’s workplace on December 23. The case was transferred to the Financial Offences Wing, which discovered the allegations prima facie true. An FIR was registered beneath Part 318(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita on the Sector 40 police station on Tuesday.
Gurugram police spokesperson Sandeep Turan stated the EOW has launched an investigation. “They’re making an attempt to hint the suspects and arrest them for recovering the cash cheated from the trio,” he added.
