Accused denied bail in property fraud case

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 12

A local court has rejected the bail application of Manish Gupta, one of the accused arrested in the alleged property fraud case of Sector 37.

Gupta was sent to judicial custody on Tuesday along with journalist Sanjeev Mahajan by the court after completion of their seven-day police remand.

In the bail application, filed through counsel Rakesh Chopra, Gupta claimed that he was innocent and arrested because he was the elder brother of Saurabh Gupta who bought the property.

However, the police opposed the bail for the accused citing serious charges against him. Gupta was arrested along with Mahajan in the case on March 2 by the Chandigarh Police.

The police had booked nine persons in the alleged fraud case. The FIR alleges that some of the accused entered a two-storey house of Rahul Mehta in Sector 37 and took possession of the first floor in March 2017. It is alleged that the accused had confined Mehta in a room for a few days and took his signatures on papers after torturing him. Rahul Mehta was later abandoned at a stud farm in Gujarat from where he was shifted from one place to another.

The police said an imposter was produced before the office of subregistrar at the time of execution of sale deed of the house.