By IANS
New Delhi : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a senior official of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) for his alleged involvement in a multimillion-rupee land scam.
S.N.S Sidhu, director of the MCD’s slum board, was arrested late Thursday for his alleged involvement in the fraudulent allotment of land meant for rehabilitation of slum dwellers in the capital, a CBI official said.
The matter had come to light when the CBI last month raided the north Delhi home of Ashok Malhotra, the alleged kingpin of the land scam. Malhotra, a contractor, was arrested Aug 7 from outside a private television news channel.
Known for his proximity to some key Delhi politicians, Malhotra had allegedly made millions of rupees in association with five DDA officials, several MCD officials and a private contractor by selling off plots meant for displaced slum-dwellers in northwest Delhi’s Dheerpur area and south Delhi’s Molarband Phase-II area.
The CBI had last month registered a case against the five DDA officers – deputy directors K.S. Verma and A.K. Mishra, assistant director J.R. Gaur and assistant engineers Shyam Babu and S.K. Sharma – for their alleged role in the scam.