Property grab case: Accused Saurabh Gupta files civil suit to cancel sale deed of house

Ramkrishan Upadhyay

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Tribune news service

Chandigarh, September 8

The alleged property grab case of Sector 37 here has witnessed a new twist as Saurabh Gupta, who purchased the property, has filed a civil suit in a Chandigarh court seeking the cancellation of the sale deed of the house.

The court has issued notices to accused Khalendra Singh Kadyan, Arvind Singla, Satpal Dagar and Gurpreet Singh, besides Rahul Mehta for filing the reply by September 16.

A notice has also been issued to HDFC Bank.

Gupta is one of nine accused named by the Chandigarh Police in an FIR registered in the alleged property grab case on March 2.

In his application Gupta claimed that he was unaware of the dispute and was a victim of cheating.

He said had he known about the dispute, he would not have invested over Rs3 crore in the property.

The FIR was registered against Sanjiv Mahajan, Saurabh Gupta, Khalendra Singh Kadyan, Arvind Singla, Ashok Arora, Satpal Dagar, Rajdeep Singh, late Surjit Singh and Shekher.

As per the FIR, some of the accused took possession of the first floor of Rahul Mehta’s house in March 2017. The accused had allegedly taken Mehta’s signatures on papers after torturing him. He was later abandoned in Gujarat.

The police said an imposter of Mehta was produced before the office of the Sub-Registrar at the time of the execution of the sale deed of the house.

The police claimed that a GPA of House No. 340, Sector 37, Chandigarh, was first executed in April 27, 2017 in favour of Arvind Singla and another accused Khalendra Singh Kadyan.

As per the chargesheet, when the lease hold right of the house was transferred on the basis of the alleged fake documents, the accused, including Singla, started a search for a prospective buyer with the aim of earning huge profit.

The chargesheet stated that Singla then allegedly approached Manish Gupta and he prepared the sale agreement in the name of his brother Saurabh Gupta.

The other accused allegedly took Gurpreet Singh to the Sub-Registrar’s office on March 1, 2019 and presented him as Rahul Mehta and got the GPA cancelled, stated the chargesheet. On the same day, sale deed of the house was executed in the name of Saurabh Gupta through Gurpreet Singh posing as Rahul Mehta.

Since the beginning, Saurabh Gupta has been claiming that he is a victim and was unaware of the dispute regarding the house.