New Delhi: A 47-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly discussing home buyers around Rs 1.75 Crore with the pretext of providing luxury apartments to them in Delhi-NCR, police said on Sunday.
The police have announced the RS 25,000 prize for information that leads to the arrest of Sanjeev Kumar Mavi, a resident of Najafgarh Delhi southwest, in connection with the 2017 case registered at the Ranhola Police Station.
Mavi, mastermind of rackets, fled while his brother-in-law Pawan Bhadana and Ravi Shukla was arrested in this case, police said, adding that a number of campfires were registered against gang members in Delhi-NCR.
According to the police, Constable Mintu and Shyam Sunder of the Crime Branch developed information about Mavi, desired in half a dozen cases.
“On Saturday, our team received information accused of Mavi to come to the 134 sector, Noida.
The trap was placed and the defendant was arrested,” said Police Commissioner (crime) Dheeraj Kumar.
Mavi told the police that he used to work as a broker for a real estate company in Delhi-NCR.
In 2016-17, together with his brother-in-law, he hatched plans to buyers of duup houses.
They recruited Shukla, who was Mavi’s friend, created a Shell company and launched a fake luxury apartment project.
After raising money from prospective buyers, they closed their office in Ghaziabad and fled, police said.
“They launched a project called ‘The Willows Luxury Apartments’ under a false real estate company called Dreamland Promoter and Private Limited Consultants in Crossing Republic, NH-24, Ghaziabad.
They collected around Rs 1.75 Crore from home buyers and escape ,” Officer.
said.