Multi-crore Rangmahal housing society scam: 11 get jail

A Delhi court today sentenced 11 persons to varying prison terms handed in one of the criminal and corruption cases pertaining to the Rs 4000-crore cooperative group housing scheme scam.

Special CBI judge Vinod Kumar sentenced scam kingpin and former Registrar Cooperative Societies Narayan Diwakar to a year in jail.

Jt Registrar Jasbeer Singh,Assistant Registrar (Audit) Jitender Sharma,Assistant Registrar Ramesh Chandra,Dealing Assistant Rakesh Kumar and RCS Inspector Faiz Mohd,71,and one P K Thirvani too were sentenced to a year in jail each.

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The court also slapped a fine of Rs 2,000 on each of the seven government servants,who were held guilty of cheating,forgery,criminal conspiracy under the Indian Penal Code and of various offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Besides the seven,the court also held city residents Sushil Kumar Sharma,Sri Chand,Anna Wankhede and Mohan Lal,guilty of cheating,forgery and criminal conspiracy and sentenced them to three years in jail each.

A fine of Rs 1,000 too was imposed on Sri Chand and Sushil Kumar while a Wankede and Lal were slapped a penalty of Rs 2,000 each.

The court,however,suspended their sentences till October 4 on a personal bond of Rs 10,000 and a surety of like amount.

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Out of over 65 charge sheets filed by CBI in 2005 in the scam,the Rangmahal CGHS case is the first to be decided.

The convicts had fraudulently alloted plot for Rangmahal CGHS in Pitampura area of North West Delhi.

CBI prosecutor A P Singh had sought maximum punishment for them saying the convicts had connived with each other and fraudulently revived the defunct housing societies on the basis of forged documents after making misrepresentation to the DDA and inducing it to allot huge land on subsidised rates to the society.

Societies lying dormant for over two decades were revived illegally in return of illegal gratification,he had argued.