DDA official, 2 others sent to three yr jail in cheating case

A DDA official and two others have been sentenced to three years in jail by a Delhi court for cheating a person by selling him a flat which was never alloted to anyone.
Special CBI Judge Rajiv Mehra awarded the jail term to Dealing Assistant (Housing) Satyavir Singh, property dealer Anil Kumar, 41, and S K Behl, 83, under the provisions of the IPC including cheating, conspiracy, forgery and for abusing official position under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
"In this case, the offence has been committed in a calculated manner through a well devised strategy to grab public property. Every convict herein has played his role with perfect precision.

"They have performed their action not out of sheer impulse but in a well thought manner. This precludes them from claiming any benefit of mitigating factors for them," the court said, while rejecting the plea of the convicts for leniency in sentence.
It imposed a fine of Rs 30,000, Rs 65,000 and Rs 40,000 on Satyavir, Anil and Behl respectively.
The court, allowing their plea, suspended the sentence till March 19 for filing an appeal in the high court and granted them bail on furnishing a bond of Rs one lakh each.

The court, however, acquitted DDA's Assistant Director (Housing) Pritam Singh and property dealer Naseem Khan of all the charges in the case.

According to the CBI, the two DDA officials in conspiracy with the two property dealers and Behl forged some documents relating to allotment of a flat in Vasant Kunj area here with an aim to grab the property and then sold it to Captain Mehar Singh for Rs 30 lakh in 1995.
As per CBI, this flat was never alloted to anyone either by draw of lot or otherwise and no demand was ever raised by the DDA for this flat.
The men forged some documents of DDA and managed to take possession of the flat fraudulently. They cheated the authority and the complainant to whom the property was sold on December 4, 1995 by Behl as he was shown as its owner.