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After registering four Regular Cases, CBI today conducted
searches at 77 places here at the official and residential
premises of the then officials of the Registrar of Cooperative
Societies (RCS), Delhi, some builders and others for fraudulently
recommending allotment of land to revived Cooperative Group
Housing Societies (CGHS) at a cost which was of 1/6th to 1/7th
of prevailing market price. CBI was working on these cases
since the last 3-4 months after getting source information
and after developing the information, the investigating agency
today struck early in the morning at these places. During
searches, large number of documents relating to these irregularities
in recommending allotment of land, blank stamp papers and
others have been recovered.
According to the FIRs, between 1970 and 1980 or thereafter
a number of Cooperative Group Housing Societies (CGHS) were
registered in Delhi. Some of these societies became defunct
due to either non-operation or non-submission of auditable
accounts, membership list and other documents to RCS for verification
which are mandatory requirements as per the Delhi Cooperative
Societies Act, 1972, the law under which the CGHS are registered
and regulated. It is alleged that in several cases due to
various reasons, including non-allotment of land, the Societies
were wound up subsequently by the RCS. In 2003, when Delhi
Development Authority (DDA) was in the process of developing
plots of land in five areas for allotment to about 80 CGHS,
certain builders/private persons hatched a conspiracy in collusion
with the then Registrar of Cooperative Societies, the then
Assistant Registrar (SW) and other officials of the then RCS
to fraudulently revive these CGHS on the basis of false/forged
documents and recommend them to DDA for allotment of land
to these Societies.
With this intention, these accused persons caused the disappearance
of the main original files of these CGHS and constructed new
files by accepting bogus/forged records from the so-called
office bearers of these societies. The then officials of the
RCS deliberately decided not to approach DDA for the original
files (DDA was also maintaining separate files of these CGHS).
Subsequently, the Cooperative Inspectors submitted bogus/fake
inspection reports claiming to have visited the offices of
these societies, examined the records and also submitted bogus/fake
photo copies of ration cards of the members of these societies
as proof of their residence. By deliberately ignoring/overlooking
inconsistencies and infirmities in papers, the accused RCS
officials ordered revival of these societies and sent information
regarding the same to DDA for allotment of land. In some instances
in order to suppress the fraudulent revival of the societies,
the accused RCS officials also changed the name of the society.
An IAS Officer of AGMU Cadre was the Registrar Cooperative
Societies, Delhi during the period when most of these Societies
were revived and recommended to DDA for allotment of land.
The officer has since retied from the IAS.
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