Diwakar alongwith two others sent to CBI custody

New Delhi, July 11 (UNI) A city court today remanded three persons including prime accused Diwakar in the Rs 4000 crore Co-operative Group Housing Scheme scam, to three days CBI custody.

Diwakar had surrendered in the court on January 30. The CBI had failed to arrest him.

After hearing arguments of both the prosecution and the defence, Patiala House Court special Judge S K Kaushik, remanded Narayan Diwakar, retired registrar of Co-operative societies, Vinod Kumar Gupta and D S Rana to CBI custody till July 14 for futher interrogation.

There were sixty six cases pending against Diwakar out of a total of ninety five cases, the CBI suspects.

Diwakar with some officials in the office of Registrar of Cooperative socities forged some documents and allegedly misused their official position, according to a senior CBI official.

CBI is now looking into the matter of their alleged involvement in a criminal conspiracy to fraudulently revive defunct societies on the basis of forged documents.

All the accused allegedly conspired with some RCS officials to recommend these fake societies to DDA for allotment of the land.

Meanwhile, yesterday the court had remanded two other accused Yogi Raj and Subhash to four days CBI custody.

All the accused were arrested under sections 120-B (Criminal Conspiracy), 419 (Cheating by Impersonation), 420 (Cheating), 467 (Forgery of Valuable Security), 468 (Forgery for the purpose of cheating), 471 (Using Forged documents as Genuine) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and 12 (1) (d) and 13 (2) (d) of the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act.

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