HC tells chairman, directors of Parsvnath not to leave country

NEW DELHI: While reprimanding the investigation officer (IO), asking him to “pull up his socks and carry out efficient investigation”, the Delhi High Court has restrained Pradeep Jain, Chairman of Parsvnath Developers Ltd, and other directors of the company, from leaving the country. In his order issued last month, Justice Vipin Sanghi, said, “Prima-facie, this case appears to disclose a serious offence, which could well be a multi-victim scam. In such cases, it is highly frustrating, not only for the complainants but also for the Court, to see the investigating agencies drag their feet. Inefficient investigation in such like cases also gives rise to avoidable doubts about the competence and integrity of the investigating agency.”

New Delhi-based Paramount Subhash Nagar Resident Welfare Association had filed a first information report (FIR) against the developer and its 12 directors. These include Parsvnath’s Chairman Pradeep Jain, and directors Sanjeev Kumar Jain, Rajeev Kumar Jain, Pritam Singh, Ashok Kumar, Deepa Gupta, Mahendra Nath Verma, RJ Kamath, the company unit Parsvnath Realcon Pvt Ltd and additional directors Ashim Ghandi, Yogesh Jain and Vivek Garg. However, there was not much progress or investigation by the police. The Welfare Association then approached the Delhi High Court. In its petition, the Association contented that its members were duped by Parsvnath Developers, who have not developed the real estate project and left its members high and dry. Their further grievance was that the police appear to be hand in glove with the ‘rich builders’ and moving slowly in carrying out the investigation. Advocate Viveck Agarwal, Counsel for the Association, submitted before the HC that till date the accused had not been summoned by the police, and it was likely that “they may even flee the country, since they were men of means, to evade the law”. The police contended that a notice was issued on 20 January 2017, but the accused had sought 30 days’ time. The IO told the Court that till date the accused had not come back with any documentation.

In 2005, the DMRC had awarded the project to Parsvnath Developers. The project was to be developed in five years as super luxury, air-conditioned condominiums, as per the agreement between DMRC and Parsvnath. NEW DELHI: Atul Vohra had just completed his Class XI examination and had been waiting anxiously to attend his first day of Class XII at Bal Bharti Public School. He had been volunteering at a local ashram and had asked his grandmother for a party on making it to the final year in school.

But on Monday, while his friends were attending the first school assembly, Atul was not present. While they kept guessing about his whereabouts, they were in for the most shocking school assembly announcement of their lives that Atul died in a road accident.

“We were all childhood friends. We knew each other for all these years. He was a hardworking student and we all had cleared the exams and were looking forward for the first day in school. But then they announced his death during the school assembly and we left school to meet his family,” said Sumedha, Atul’s friend. NEW DELHI: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly picked up from her house in Swaroop Nagar and assaulted with beer bottles by a jilted lover. The girl has been grievously injured and is seeking treatment at ISBT Trauma centre. The police have apprehended the accused who is a neighbor of the victim. The accused has claimed that he was asked by the girl to attack her. The police have not been able to verify the claims as the victim is unconscious. The incident took place on Sunday evening, when the girl was kidnapped from her house in Swaroop Nagar. Her family had been frantically searching for the girl in the adjoining area and when she was not found, they approached Swaroop Nagar police station and filed a complaint. In their complaint they had alleged that their daughter was kidnapped by the accused, after which a kidnapping case was registered at the police station. The police then formed several teams in a bid to trace her, however, they were not able to ascertain

Atul, who was very religious in nature, had been volunteering at a local ashram in her whereabouts. The police later received a PCR call in the morning when a passer-by spotted an unconscious girl with severe head injuries lying near an abandoned stretch of Burari main road. The police reached the spot and shifted the girl to ISBT Trauma centre. When the investigation into the case commenced, it was found that the girl was indeed the 16-yearold who was kidnapped from her house. Her parents were contacted and they reached the hospital. The girl had been assaulted with beer bottles that were found strewn around the site. She had been assaulted with the bottles and was bleeding profusely from the head. Till the time this report was filed, she had not gained consciousness.

The family members of the victim had claimed that she had been stalked by the accused on multiple occasions who had pressurised her to marry him. Later, she spurned his advances which infuriated him. The police managed to trace the accused and apprehended him. He is currently being questioned by the cops. Sunder Vihar. He was looking forward to his classes and had been working since Saturday morning. He had called up his grandmother Tara Anand on Saturday.

Tara had promised her grandson that she would treat him for clearing his exams but instead she was attending his funeral. “He told me that he had cleared his eleventh and will be attending the classes from Monday. I asked him for a treat but instead he convinced me to throw a party for him,” she said.

Tara never imagined that she was talking to Atul for the last time. “I never thought that I would be attending his funeral. That was the last time we talked,” she further added.

His school friends remembered his prowess in accounting and talked about how he would help them out with their problems without any hesitation. However, his fam- ily revealed his real passion — Travelling.

Atul had taken a unique combination of commerce with geography, as he wanted to learn more about the world. “He had taken geography as his additional subject and had expressed a keen interest in learning more about the world. Last year he had convinced his family to go for a trip to Dubai with his schoolmates. He enjoyed much at the trip,” said Ruchi Arora, Atul’s sister. The Dubai trip was the last for Atul with his friends before he left behind his friends and died in a hit-and-run accident. The following morning his neighbours brought back his battered body as his family started to cry after seeing him.

“Atul is gone but we want the culprit behind this to be punished,” Ruchi added.