Accused claims innocence in Sector 37 property grab case

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 10

Manish Gupta, one of the accused arrested in an alleged property grab case, has claimed that he was falsely implicated in the case by the police. In his application for bail filed before a local court, Gupta claims that he had no role in the entire case.

Gupta was arrested along with journalist Sanjeev Mahajan in the case on March 2 by the Chandigarh police.

In the bail application, filed through counsel Rakesh Chopra, Gupta claims he was arrested only because he is the elder brother of Saurabh Gupta who bought the property.

Manish, along with Mahajan, was sent to judicial custody yesterday by the court after completion of their seven-day police remand.

The police opposed the bail citing serious charges against Manish.

Manish’s counsel claimed before the court that his client was neither the seller nor the purchaser of the property.

The court adjourned hearing in the case for March 12.

The police have booked nine persons in the case. The FIR alleges that accused Surjit, Mahajan and others entered a two-storey house of Rahul Mehta in Sector 37 and took possession of the first floor in March 2017. It is alleged in the FIR that the accused had confined Mehta to 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 that an imposter was produced before the office of sub-registrar at the time of execution of the sale deed of the house.