Duping people in name of CHB flats allotment: Chandigarh Police file chargesheet against woman

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 19

The Chandigarh Police have filed a chargesheet against Manjit Kaur who allegedly cheated many people on the pretext of allotting CHB flats situated in Sector 51 here. The police arrested her after registering a case on a complaint of a former DSP of the Chandigarh Police, Davinder Singh Thakur.

The case was registered for the offences punishable under Sections 420 and 406 of the IPC last year. In the complaint, Devinder alleged that the woman claimed that she could get a CHB flat allotted to his son in Sector 51 through the Governor’s quota. He claimed that the woman told him that the Governor of Punjab was personally known to her and she could get any work done directly from him. She also claimed that she also knew persons in the Prime Minister’s office.

Thakur said the woman claimed that she was a member of the Governor’s Oustee Quota Committee and that she was authorised to receive payments in her account for the allotment of CHB flats situated in Sector 51. The accused took his son along to show him a flat which was shut. When asked, Manjit Kaur said as the original allottee had defaulted in payment, the Governor would re-allot these flats under the Governor’s quota and she, being an executive member of the committee, would recommend the names of eligible persons to the Administration.

She said the money had to be transferred to the executive members’ accounts and they would further transfer it to the Governor’s account. She allegedly said houses were under renovation and that she would deliver their physical possession on receipt of full and final payments. The complainant said he believed the woman as her son was a friend of his son.

Thakur said he paid over Rs7 lakh to the woman on separate dates as earnest money through bank and cash payments. Llater, he came to know that she was lying. He said after rigorous follow-up, she transferred only Rs5 lakh into his son’s bank account and promised to return the rest of the money in a week’s time, but failed to do so. Later, more people filed cases against her for cheating them in a similar pattern.

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