Delhi Police has filed a charge sheet against former Indian opener Gautam Gambhir. The former southpaw batsman who has turned politician is under the scanner. The Country capital’s Police have filed a supplementary charge sheet against Gautam Gambhir and several others for alleged criminal breach of trust and cheating flat buyers.
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More than 50 flat buyers have filed a complaint alleging that they booked flats in the region of Ghaziabad’s Indrapuram in 2011. But the project didn’t take off. Gautam Gambhir who is currently a member of Parliament was a director and brand ambassador of the joint project of Rudra Buildwell Realty Pvt Ltd and H R Infracity Pvt Ltd. Consequently, Gambhir promoted and advertised by Gambhir and he helped in attracting and inviting buyers for the project.
Gautam Gambhir under the scanner.
The case was lodged in 2016 against the firm for allegedly deceiving people in booking flats for crores of rupees in the housing project.
In its charge sheet, the police alleged that “the developers executed Builder Buyer Agreement with the victims in June-July, 2014 even after the expiry of sanctioned building plan on June 6, 2013. Developers have been demanding and collecting money from the victims unauthorizedly even after June 23, 2013.”
“Investors have been deliberately kept in dark about the litigations involving hr proposed site of land. Authorities canceled the sanction/ approval etc. for the project on April 15, 2015, due to default of payments of requisite license fees, etc. and non-compliance of other formalities,” the final report said.
Apart from Gautam Gambhir, the other promoters such as Gautam Mehra, Babita Khurana, and Mukesh Khurana are included in the charge sheet by Delhi Police.
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The report was filed under various sections, including 406 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating) and 34 (the criminal act is done by several persons in furtherance of the common intention), of the IPC.