Gurgaon-based property dealers, the police said, did play a role in procuring identity proofs from villagers in Haryana. After Rajasthan, Haryana is emerging as the place from where details of several applicants were collected.

Over the next few days, teams from the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) will be raiding villages in Haryana and property dealers in Gurgaon.

Sources said a tailor, Dharam Pal Koli, among several others, was approached by Gurgaon property dealers who claimed they could provide DDA flats at cheap rates.

“Koli will help us to identify the property dealers who contacted him within days of the DDA inviting applications for flats,” said an official.

“Koli who did not have any identity proof was given an identify proof, a PAN card and other documents by the dealers who also completed the bank formalities,” added the source.