Ansal CMD, 8 others booked for fraud

Shiv Kumar Sharma

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Tribune News Service

Yamunanagar, October 23

The police yesterday booked the chairman-cum-managing director (CMD) of Ansal Housing and Construction Limited and eight others on the charges of criminal conspiracy, breach of trust, cheating and criminal intimidation.

On the complaint of AK Narwal, District Town Planner (DTP), Yamunanagar, a case was registered against Deepak Ansal, CMD; his sons and directors Kushagr Ansal and Karun Ansal; KK Singhal, director; Vipin Mehta, senior general manager (marketing); Sanjeev Katyal, deputy general manager (marketing); Suresh Kendwal, manager, Ansal Town, Jagadhri; Vikram, assistant manager; and Gurnish Kaur, senior executive.

The case was registered at the Jagadhri Sadar police station. The DTP had written to the SP, seeking an FIR against Ansal Housing and Construction Limited for not giving possession of a plot to an allottee. Ranjodh Singh of Harnaul village in the district lodged a complaint at the CM Window on May 8.

He stated that he had booked a plot in Sector 20 in July 2012 and made full payment in December 2015, but the company neither gave him possession of the plot nor got a sale deed registered in his name.

The DTP, also the member-secretary, Allottees Grievances Forum, informed Ansal about a meeting of the forum on August 9, but no one appeared on behalf of the company. In the meeting, DC Rohtash Singh Kharb, also forum chairman, directed the company to give possession within 20 days.

The DTP sent a copy of the proceedings of the meeting to the company on August 25. The DTP wrote a letter to the SP on October 3 for an FIR against Ansal as it had failed to give possession of the plot to the allottee.

Complainant Ranjodh Singh had, in his statement recorded by the police, said he was cheated and threatened of dire consequences by officials of the company when he requested them to give him possession of his plot.

Sources said that nine other persons affected lodged similar complaints with Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on September 23. The complaints were being probed by the local administration separately.