Do not transfer plots to buyers: Court to CBI, DDA

NEW DELHI: A trial court has ordered CBI and DDA to ensure that plots allotted fraudulently in the multi-crore Molarband and Dheerpur landscam case are not transferred to subsequent buyers. The scam allegedly involves former Delhi assembly canteen contractor Ashok Malhotra.
The court gave the order while deciding to frame charges against seven people, including Malhotra, in two chargesheets relating to the fraudulent plot allotments in Dheerpur Phase I and Nehru Vihar.
“It is a matter of concern that the allotments were made to ineligible/fictitious persons and the plots also appear to have been further transferred to innocent purchasers who may have spent their life time earnings. If the allotment to the initial allottee itself was fraudulent, no valid title could be legally passed to the subsequent purchasers/ transferee,” special CBI Judge A K Mendiratta said.
The court also directed that a notification be issued to the public specifying the 17 plots involved in fraudulent allotment in the six chargesheets and called for an action taken report from the DDA vice-chairman on September 7. “The prosecution as well as DDA is directed to take necessary steps to ensure that the plots involved in the present six chargesheets (pertaining to fraudulent allotment in Dheerpur and Nehru Vihar area) are not further transferred to prevent duping of any bonafide purchaser,” it ordered.
The CBI has filed 16 chargesheets covering fictitious allotment of plots under Resettlement Scheme of Slum & JJ Department and Scheme for Redevelopment of Kingsway Camp area. Malhotra, who earlier worked as a 'chhole bhature' vendor and later got the contract to run Delhi assembly canteen, is a common accused in all the cases.
Of the 16 chargesheets, six pertain to plots allotted in Dheerpur and Nehru Vihar while the remaining cover the plots allotted fraudulently in Molarband, Savda Ghera and Rohini.