Gopal Ansal to face charges in cheating, forgery case

A Delhi court recently ordered framing of charges against real estate businessman Gopal Ansal for offences including cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy with a private company and its promoters.

Metropolitan Magistrate Yashdeep Chahal of Delhi’s Patiala House Court has put Gopal Ansal on trial under a section of the Indian Penal Code related to cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy in a matter pertaining to allegedly defrauding a private company and its promoters in the name of investment in a building at Connaught Place here in 1991.

“I find it a fit case to frame charges against accused Gopal Ansal for the commission of offences punishable under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 201, 120B IPC,” said the order passed last week.

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The court discharged Sushil Ansal, elder brother of Gopal Ansal, noting that the material on record is grossly insufficient.

“Apart from a bare statement that the fraud was not possible without the involvement of all the directors, there is nothing on record to implicate him,” said the court in order.