6 persons booked for duping man on pretext of selling house

Six persons have been booked for cheating a man of more than Rs 15 lakh on the pretext of selling him an apartment in Gurgaon, police said.
The victim, Om Prakash Gulati, recently approached the police with a complaint against six men who claimed to be running a real estate firm. The men had invited applications for allotment of residential apartments in 2010, they said.
Between 2010 to 2012, Gulati paid Rs 15,80,379 to the men who assured him that he would be given possession of the apartment in 2013, the victim said in his complaint.
Over the next two years, the accused kept giving false assurances about construction beginning soon but it did not happen, Gulati added in his complaint.

Last year, the complainant also sent a legal notice to the men asking him to forfeit the amount he paid to them but there was no response from them, he alleged, adding that when he inquired, he found that the land where the project was being constructed had been sold off.
A case has been registered against the six men on the complaint of Gulati, the police said.