Avneet Singh Bedi was arrested last night from his Panchsheel Park residence in south Delhi based on a complaint by Joint Municipal Commissioner, Ghaziabad, Arun Kumar Gupta in which he alleged that Bedi grabbed 945 square metres of government land in Chikamberpur village on the Delhi-UP border.
A part of the land, measuring 532 square metres, was rented out to a transport company and he used the rest of it as an approach road to enter a transport godown, Superintendent of Police Akash Tomar said.
On the directives of Chief Minster Yogi Adityanath, the administration has launched a drive to check land grabbing and is taking action to free land from the clutches of mafias, the officer said.
A spokesperson of the airline said it "does not comment on personal matters of its executives/employees".