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Gautam, who had retired in 2004, had been detained on Wednesday.
Besides him, a Dwarka-based property dealer, one Raju Ram, was also arrested. The investigators claim he was among those who funded Gautam in the scam.
Additional Commissioner of Police (EOW) S B K Singh today said, “It is now for sure that there is a major fraud in DDA. We haven’t yet got the full information (but) it is a huge case and requires detailed and intensive interrogation and investigation.”
Singh said the EOW has got “several” leads: “The investigation will take time but we will take the case to a logical conclusion. No one would be spared; all angles will be probed.”
Police officials said Gautam had hatched the plan to take advantage of the flats reserved for SC-category applicants and was helped by at least eight financers. “These financers gave him money to submit application fees for 1,200 (fake) forms,” Singh said. “These were filled mostly from Bulandshahar, in Uttar Pradesh.”
An EOW source said Gautam has revealed names of these eight financers — all are apparently from Delhi — but is yet disclose details about them. Gautam, the source said, had promised these 1,200 applicants from UP that he would pay them Rs 1 lakh each on successful allotment of flats.
According to the source, Gautam has admitted hiring eight persons in an office near his house, in Paschim Vihar, to forge documents and fill the applications.
The investigators have learnt that Deepak Kumar helped Gautam. Kumar, the second arrest in the case, is a property dealer who made the first complaint in the case after allegedly being sidelined by other conspirators in the fraud. “The deal between Gautam, Raju Ram and eight others was on a profit-sharing basis but Gautam was assigned the task of handling operations in the DDA,” the source said.
Laxmi Narayan Meena, a suspended bank official from Jhunjhunu (Rajasthan), collected forms of Scheduled Tribes category in and around the town later, sources said.
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I appreciate the work done by media in exposing the possibilities of a huge scam in the recent DDA Housing Scheme draw. I'm one of the people who want this draw cancelled, not because I was not lucky enough to get any of the flats but because none of the thousands of people like me, who had borrowed money from banks by paying huge interest, has got any flat. Interestingly, all the people who got LUCKY, have paid the token money in CASH. So, I want to ask DDA if it is only a coincidence or their game plan? Did you do this alone or the banks were also involved? Can you please return my money when your game is over? Mr. Minister, will you do something? Atleast just order a CBI enquiry for this? Mr. Journalist, you must have applied for the flats and i know you would do something. HOPE FLOATS...:)