A couple has been arrested here for allegedly duping a woman of over Rs 3 crore in connection with the sale of a property in posh Green Park locality in south Delhi, police said.
The accused Preeti Bansal and her husband Vinod Bansal were arrested from a house near Haidarpur Metro Station in Shalimar Bagh area on Thursday, DCP (South) Ishwar Singh said.
According to police, Krisha Devi, a resident of Green Park filed a complaint of cheating of worth Rs 3.3 crore at Safdarjung Enclave Police Station. An FIR has been registered under relevant sections of IPC.
In her complaint she stated that she used to visit a beauty parlour in Green Park and its owner Kusum Goel allegedly lured her to buy a property in the area at a substantially lower price of Rs 3.43 crore.
Goel allegedly told Krishna that she had paid Rs 65 lakh for the property to Preeti Bansal and showed her an agreement to this effect. She also claimed that she herself was not in a condition to buy the property due to financial problems.
Following this Krishna paid Rs 5 lakh as advance to Goel in July 2015. On July 31, 2015, a new agreement between Krishna and Preeti was made after which she paid Rs 20 lakh as token money.
Later, the complainant also paid remaining Rs 3.1 crore to the accused. But, when she visited the property bought by her in December, 2015, she found that it was allegdly mortgaged to a bank.
Preeti and Vinod had taken a housing loan of Rs 7 crore on the property. Also, a case was registered against them by a property dealer who had paid them Rs 1.25 crore, a police said.
"They used to lure the people on the pretext that the property is in posh area, prime location and its floor can be purchased on nominal prices as compared to market rates. In this way, they have cheated four people," the officer said.
