New Delhi: A Delhi man has been taken into custody on the charges of defrauding a bank of Rs 2.5 crore by forging land papers and afterwards raising a loan, police stated on Saturday.
Brij Gopal was accused that he had gotten the property of complainants on the basis of fake documents and siphoned off cash, police continued.
Police said that Brij Gopal produced two sales deeds, asserting that he had bought two pieces of land measuring 600 sq yards from one Sunil Kumar, despite the fact that this land originally belonged to late Surjan Sharma, father of one of the complainants.
Based on the said forged sales deeds, Brij got a loan of Rs 2.62 crore from Karur Vysya Bank.
The police officer stated, “He induced the complainants to give their property on rent but later prepared forged documents of the property. Accused further mortgaged the property with Karur Vysya Bank.”
OP Mishra, Joint Commissioner of Police (Economic Offenses Wing), said, “During the investigation, it was found that payments were never made to alleged seller Sunil Kumar by Brij and it was just a sham transaction. The address that was given in the sale deed also was incomplete.”
Enquiries with India Security Press qua stamp papers additionally demonstrated that the documents were forged and the stamp vendors added in that they were not according to the official records.
In another case of forged documents: Nearly seven days ago, Four individuals from a family were taken into custody for allegedly deceiving a few banks of over ₹ 20 crores by producing fake documents and falsely availing loans by mortgaging the same properties many times, the police had said.
They stated, in one such instance, the accused availed loan on land which was already obtained by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.
Ashwani Arora and Vijay Arora alongside their spouses, who were missing for almost four years, were taken into custody from different locations in Ghaziabad and Delhi after the Economic Offenses Wing (EOW) of the Delhi Police led simultaneous raids regarding a 2016 case of bank defrauding , they stated.
The issue became visible after a complaint was received in 2016 from Zonal Manager of Punjab and Sind Bank, in west Delhi’s Nariana, the police stated.