Realty firm partners booked for committing fraud worth crores

Singla Land Developers, a city-based property dealer, committed a major fraud of several crores with another prime real estate company, GK Group, involved in various real estate projects, and residents.

In the scam, four partners from the company created fake affidavits and NOCs to sell plots in Sunrise Colony, Jandiali village. Furthermore, they also obtained registration of the plots from the department with the help of fake documents.

Gulshan Kumar, owner of the GK Group, alleged that the four suspects committed the fraud worth Rs 10 crore. The Focal Point police on Friday registered a case against the business partners of Singla Land Developers Ravi Bhushan Singla, his brother Vinay Singla, Sunil Kumar and Tejinder Singh.

The FIR copy, which is with The Tribune, states that when the suspects purchased the 3,100-yard plot from Gulshan Kumar, owner of the GK Group, they finalised the deal by giving him a 10 per cent advance. When the time came for the registration, the suspects obtained the registry by giving Gulshan a post-dated cheque. Later, the cheque was not cleared by the bank. This is where the suspects’ fraudulent activities began. They fraudulently registered the land. Using the Aadhaar card, the suspects themselves prepared fake documents and began selling plots to people, defrauding them of crores of rupees.

The complainant, Gulshan Kumar, said the four fraudsters were also accused of misleading GLADA and registry officials through forged documents. The suspects sold land to people by using the officials’ signatures on fake documents. The entire scheme was orchestrated using fake NOCs, registry officials’ signatures and affidavits.

Rohit Puniani, son of Gulshan, said Singla Developers had done many other frauds and a lot of complaints were registered against its partners in the past.