Chargesheet filed against Gambhir in cheating case
BJP MP was director of a housing project which never took off
The Delhi police has filed a supplementary chargesheet in a city court against cricketer-turnedpolitician Gautam Gambhir and several others for alleged criminal breach of trust and cheating flat buyers.
Over 50 flat buyers have filed a complaint alleging that they booked flats in a real estate project in Ghaziabad’s Indirapuram in 2011 but it did not take off.
Mr Gambhir, a BJP MP, was a director and brand ambassador of the joint project of Rudra Buildwell Realty Pvt Ltd and HR Infracity Pvt Ltd, against which a case was lodged in 2016 for allegedly duping
people of crores of rupees on the pretext of booking apartments in the housing project.
In the chargesheet, the police alleged that the developers executed Builder-Buyer Agreement with the victims in JuneJuly, 2014 even after the
The developers allegedly executed Builder-Buyer Agreement with the victims in 2014 even after the expiry of sanctioned building plan on June 6, 2013. Developers have been demanding money from the victims unauthorisedly.
expiry of sanctioned building plan on June 6,
2013.
Developers have been demanding and collecting money from the victims unauthorisedly even after June 23, 2013.
“Investors have been deliberately kept in dark about the litigations involving the proposed site of land. Authorities cancelled the sanction/approval etc. for the project on April 15, 2015 due to default of payments of requisite licence fees etc. and non-compliance of other formalities,” the final report said.
Besides Mr Gambhir and the firm, the chargesheet also includes the name of its other promoters Mukesh Khurana, Gautam Mehra and Babita Khurana as accused.
The complainants have alleged that “the project was extensively promoted and advertised and Mr Gambhir, as the brand ambassador, helped in attracting and inviting buyers to invest in the project”.