Revenue officials among 12 people booked for illegal sale of EWS flats

GURUGRAM: The Gurugram Police on Wednesday booked 12 people, including six officials from the revenue department, for allegedly violating norms in selling flats meant for buyers of the EWS category.

The latest case comes in the wake of intense scrutiny on the district revenue department, where earlier, six other officials were booked for allegedly violating norms with regard to sale of small agricultural land.

According to officials, between 2013 and 2017, allottees of certain EWS flats sold them in connivance with the revenue department officials. Haryana government rules prohibit private real estate developers to sell or transfer flats under EWS category for at least a period of five years after allotment. Further, the allotment should only be made to people domiciled in Haryana.

The case names three EWS allottees, Hemant Kumar, Kamlesh and Neeraj Kumar, all residents of Gurugram; three buyers, Girish Kumar, resident of Sector 46, Bela Singh from Maharashtra, and Manisha from Delhi, and the six revenue officials, namely Om Prakash, Rupender Singh, Om Prakash Yadav, Inderjeet Singh, Ram Chander and Jagdish Bishnoi. The police said Girish Kumar was involved multiple illegal registrations. The police said that a case has been registered on the complaint of CM Flying Squad, a branch of the criminal investigation department (CID) at Sector 29 police station against the suspects under sections of the IPC and Prevention of Corruption Act. Investigating officer, sub-inspector (S-I) Suresh Chander said that they had received the complaint in January 2019. The complaint alleged that the these properties were transferred to ineligible persons in violation of lock-in period of five years.