New Delhi: The Ghaziabad-based businessman, accused of duping Yogja Singh, daughter of former Union minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader General (Retired) V.K. Singh’s daughter of Rs 3.5 crore, has had at least four-five cases lodged against him in the past, on similar charges, ThePrint has learnt.
He has, however, never been arrested, sources said, since all the Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections that he was charged under in all of those cases warranted punishment of a jail term of less than seven years.
Assistant Commissioner of Police (Ghaziabad) Abhishek Srivastava told ThePrint that the probe into the matter is underway and that he is yet to be questioned. The accused is a resident of Ghaziabad.
“The complainant entered into an agreement with the accused to purchase a house in Rajnagar Colony for Rs 5.5 crore in 2014. However, even after a payment of Rs 3.5 crore, the accused did not finalise the sale deed,” a senior police officer said.
According to the FIR lodged at the Kavi Nagar police station, a copy of which has been accessed by ThePrint, the businessman has been booked for cheating and criminal breach of trust. It says that Singh and the accused had entered into a verbal agreement for sale of the Ghaziabad property on 14 June, 2014 for an amount of Rs 5.5 crore.
Yogja, the complainant, paid him Rs 10 lakh soon and decided to pay the leftover amount gradually. The building was then renovated and Singh was informed about a pending expenditure of Rs 4.5 lakh for which she gave him post dated cheques.
The complainant has alleged that the property was to be handed over on 15 July, 2014 and the promise has still not been fulfilled. Some time later, Singh had to seek a loan on the building, for which a written contract was made between the two. Between 13 February and 15 February in 2017, another payment of Rs 33.5 lakh was transferred to his account.
The FIR mentions that Yogja kept asking the accused for the original documents of the house to get a loan on the said building. He did not give her the documents and started demanding more money.
Between 2018 and 2023, the complainant transferred Rs 3 crore, according to the FIR. However, when she informed the accused that her loan had been sanctioned and she had to get the property registered, he sent her a legal notice on the basis of “wrong and false facts”.
She responded to the notice on 30 August this year, which was again opposed by the accused businessman.
“The accused is not doing the sale deed of the disputed house, even after repeated requests by the complainant, and wants to evict her and her family from the disputed building and take possession of it. With the intention of fraudulently usurping the amount given by the applicant, the opponent made a fake rent receipt against the applicant and with the intention of taking undue advantage, a suit for eviction was filed against the applicant in the court of Additional District Magistrate,” the FIR reads.
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