The Economic Offence Wing of Delhi Police have arrested a father-son duo for allegedly duping two Delhi-based businessmen of over Rs 3.10 crores.
The accused have been identified as KailashNath Gupta and his son Siddharth Gupta. According to the police, both the accused along with their associate Nitin Aggarwal had sold-off a ‘fake’ property to Om Prakash, the complainant in the case.
‘The accused told him that the property was located in Rajouri Garden and belonged to real estate giant DLF’, said a police officer quoting victim’s statement.
He further added that the accused had used fake letters in order to convince the complainant that the property belonged to DLF.
Surprisingly, after the complainant made the payment, the accused got the property transferred in their name. ‘They convinced the complainant that the property was owned by DLF and is free from all kinds of disputes. After taking Rs 3.10 crores from the complainants, the accused persons got the property transferred in their own name,’ the officer said.
Similarly, in a separate case, the father-son duo also duped another person, identified as Rajini Jain in the same fashion and pocketed Rs 1.5 crore from him.
Subsequently, when the complainant pulled up Kailash Nath for the alleged scam, he was offered cheques to ‘settle’ the issue. However, the cheques were dishonoured by the banks.
Kailash Nath, again issued cheques of a company in which he is one of the directors. But during the investigations, it was revealed by other directors of the company that the account opened in company’s name was fake. ‘It was opened by Kailash Nath to cheat people’, the director said requesting anonymity.
On failing to recover the amount from the accused, the complainant reported the matter to police. On Saturday, both the accused were arrested from their residence at CC Colony in Kalyan Vihar.
Kailash Nath Gupta works as a property consultant whereas his son is a senior executive at a multinational company. The Rohini Court has sent the duo for three days police remand. ‘The matter of letters issued in the name of DLF is being probed. Further investigation is in progress,’ the police officer added.