By IANS
New Delhi : Thousands of accused in the Rs.40-billion Cooperative Group Housing Scheme (CGHS) scam, where a defunct housing society was revived on false documents, are “untraceable”, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said Monday.
The investigating agency, which took over the case March 20, 2005, has so far filed charge-sheets against 137 people.
The agency apprised the Delhi High Court Monday that it has probed the affairs of 137 housing societies out of the total 202 societies under its scanner.
Forty housing societies have been given a clean chit. “But about thousand members of other societies who committed the offence are untraceable,” CBI counsel Harish Gulati told the court.
Narayan Diwakar, a former Registrar of Cooperative Societies (RCS), is the key accused in the scam. Diwakar, working and posted as a public servant, allegedly abused his official position to revive the defunct cooperative group housing society ‘Sea-Show CGHS Ltd’ in 1998, originally registered Oct 10, 1983.
The FIR filed by the CBI also names Gopal Bisht, a dealing assistant in RCS, V.P. Singh, then assistant registrar, S.P. Saxena, Ashwani Sharma – then officials of RCS – Gokul Chand Aggarwal, hen president of the society, a dealing assistant and other unidentified people.
According to the CBI, Diwakar purportedly entered into an alleged criminal conspiracy with Gokul Chand Aggarwal and others to revive the defunct society on the basis of fake and forged documents.
They got the land allotted at a much lower price than the prevailing market rate, causing loss to the exchequer.
Gokul had alleged in an affidavit that two former union ministers, a former Delhi chief minister, a former lieutenant-governor of Delhi and a serving Delhi minister had made huge investments in the fraudulently revived group housing society through a front man.