Top DDA officers, three others held for accepting bribe
All the four have been arrested and will be produced before a local court here on Thursday.
New Delhi: The CBI on Wednesday arrested the principal commissioner of Delhi Development Authority (DDA) J.P. Aggarwal and three others for allegedly accepting a bribe of '4 lakh.
Sources in the agency said that during investigations, Aggarwal was arrested along with two other persons — Sunil Gupta and Anil Gupta — for allegedly accepting the bribe of Rs 4 lakh.
The money was handed over inside a file related to an allotment of a flat to an individual named J.P. Sharma, who too was subsequently arrested by the police.
A case under various sections of Indian Penal Code and Prevention of Corruption Act was registered against all four persons and searches were conducted at their official and residential premises, sources said.
All the four have been arrested and will be produced before a local court here on Thursday.
Earlier, the probe agency had registered two cases against former officials of the Delhi government and Delhi Development Authority for the alleged irregularities in the allotment of residential plots in 2016.
The agency had alleged that certain officials of Delhi Development Authority’s Land and Building Department conspired with some private persons and issued fraudulent recommendation letters in the name of non-existent or pseudonymous persons for allotment of alternative plot under the welfare scheme launched by the Delhi government.
The scheme was meant for rehabilitation of agriculturists whose lands were acquired by the government. In furtherance to the criminal conspiracy, the officials of Land and Building Department (Alternative Section) had allegedly submitted forged documents before a committee which approved the recommendation of allotment of alternative plots in the name of non-existent persons.