Three Gurgaon realtors booked for fraud

Gurgaon, March 4 (IANS) Eleven First Information Reports (FIRs) have been lodged against three Gurgaon realtors on charges of cheating and fraud at various police stations in the last 24 hours, police said on Wednesday.

Five fresh FIRs have been lodged against Pal Builders at Manesar police station.

Senior officials of Vigneshwara developers, accused of cheating people, were booked for fraud. Three FIRs have been registered at Sushant Lok police station.

Similarly, three FIRs have been registered against Unitech at Sadar police station. On February 26, more than 30 customers from Unitech's The Residences project landed up at the Deputy Commissioner's (DC) office to vent their grievances against Unitech during a meeting of the grievance committee formed by the state government and headed by Haryana Agriculture Minister O.P. Dhankar.

On the directions of Dhankar, DC T.L. Satyaprakash had ordered the filing of a complaint against Unitech and said the Economic Offence Wing (EOW) of the police will probe the matter.

Customers complained to the grievance committee that Unitech had launched 'The Residence project' in Sector-33, Gurgaon in May 2009 and was to deliver 1,320 homes by December 2011 as per the agreement that Unitech had entered into with buyers.

Till date, only 90 flats have been delivered and more than 90 percent of the project remains in an abandoned state.

Most of the FIRs have been registered on the different complaints under sections 467, 468, 471, 420, 406 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

The sections stand for preparing and using forged documents, cheating, breach of trust and common intent respectively; however no one has been arrested.