NDMC ex-employee "swindled" Rs 1 cr

According to the FIR, on July 8, 1994, Mann was directed by the Director of Estates to calculate the Prominent’s outstanding license fee. The company had been allotted land at Shahid Bhagat Singh Marg in 1982 by the NDMC on a license-fee basis and had not paid the fee since 1988-89.

The report states that Mann “dishonestly and fraudulently calculated the total arrears as Rs 2,03,56,028.84 instead of the actual figure of Rs 3,05,66,35.20”. However, the then director, R.B. Maurya, detected the mistake in the register.

It is further alleged that “in pursuance of the said criminal conspiracy, three bogus credit entries, totalling Rs 10 lakh, pertaining to the period January ’91 to March ’91 have been made in the D&C register in favour of M/s Prominent Hotels Ltd with the intent to cause undue pecuniary benefit to the hotel”.

Charges have been framed against Mann and Prominent Hotels’ officials under Sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 420 (cheating), 470 (forged document) and 511 (punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other punishment) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 13(2) read with Section 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.