According to the FIR, successful 2013, the slum dwellers roped successful Vijayraj Realtors and their partners; Rajan Shirodkar, Ashutosh Abhyankar, Vijay Yeolekar and 2 others for processing their slum's onshore nether the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA). (Express Archives)
The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai constabulary booked 5 directors of a realty steadfast and their partners connected Thursday for allegedly defrauding a Bandra-based builder to the tune of Rs 52 crore.
Mohammed Ali Bharwani (73) has a concern steadfast that owns a portion of onshore (measuring 2138.90 quadrate metre) successful Vile Parle village. As galore arsenic 68 slum dwellers were surviving connected the said land.
According to the FIR, successful 2013, the slum dwellers roped successful Vijayraj Realtors and their partners; Rajan Shirodkar, Ashutosh Abhyankar, Vijay Yeolekar and 2 others for processing their slum’s onshore nether the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA). Bharwani’s steadfast gave consent to the task named arsenic Matoshree Surajben SRA Cooperative Housing Society (planned).
The accused realtors and their partners had allegedly promised 23 flats (measuring 13,445 quadrate foot) to Bharwani successful the task constructed connected the said land, but till March 2021, they failed to implicit the task and besides failed to fulfill their promises. “The slum dwellers person nary spot to live. The accused developers person besides stopped giving them rent,” alleged Bharwani.
The accused realtors allegedly sold the units from the sellable components, but diverted the wealth to immoderate different institution and projects for wrongful summation and did not implicit the project, states the FIR.
They besides breached the conditions imposed by SRA and made amerciable merchantability of units from the sixth and seventh floors of Vijay Residency gathering connected the Vile Parle plot. The accused besides availed a indebtedness from the slope connected the saleable country of the task but defaulted successful paying backmost to the bank, the FIR added.
Bharwani said successful the FIR that the accused besides allegedly took a indebtedness of Rs 2.5 crore from him but failed to repay the money.
According to the FIR, the 4 accused realtors failed to fulfill their promises and neither delivered the promised flats, nor did they wage backmost the builder. The accused realtors allegedly violated presumption and conditions of the statement with the slum dwellers and failed to implicit the task and allegedly made wrongful gain, Bharwani alleged successful the FIR.
Bhawani, who suffered a nonaccomplishment of Rs 52.54 crore, approached the Mumbai constabulary EOW past year, and aft 20-months, the EOW has present registered a complaint.
Police person booked the 4 realtors nether Sections 409 (criminal breach of spot by a nationalist servant oregon by a banker, merchant, oregon cause ) and 34 (common intention) of the IPC. The lawsuit was archetypal registered astatine the Vile Parle constabulary presumption and aboriginal EOW took implicit the probe.
Accused Vijay Shirodkar died connected November 12this year. Abhyankar and Yeolekar did not respond to telephone calls and messages.