The district police had registered a cheating case against Ajay Enterprises, the builders of Mayfair Tower, in November last year, after a complaint was filed by the residents. Ajay Enterprises had allegedly cheated the residents by selling them flats with less carpet area and had also mortgaged the apartments to the Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) against loans, after the flats were sold to people. The case was handed over to the Economic Cell of the district police.

Two kinds of flats were sold by the builder: one set had a carpet area of 1431 square feet and the other had a carpet area of 1,567 sq ft. The Economic Cell asked the Public Works Department to find out the actual measurement of the carpet area in the Mayfair Tower flats last December. In a report submitted to the Economic Cell last month, the PWD has said that in the two kinds of flats, carpet areas are 1040.25 sq ft and 973.84 sq ft. As per the PWD findings, the actual difference in the carpet areas in both kinds of flats is around 500 sq ft.

Raman Sood, Managing Director of Ajay Enterprises, when contacted over phone, said: `` It has come to our notice that there is some report from the PWD about the carpet area and the super area, but it has not been served to us as yet, so I can not comment on this unless I see it.''

He said that they would reply to the investigating officer after they receive the report. ``I am sure that our work is well within the framework of law,'' he added.

The officials of the Economic Cell say that the PWD finding proves that the promoters cheated the buyers by providing them less area than what they had paid for. ``A few other things have to be investigated for us to proceed further against the promoters of the apartments. We are to get a report from the Faridabad General Post Office as well to confirm whether Surajkund falls within the postal zone of Faridabad or New Delhi,'' said the official investigating the case. The FIR alleges that the builders misled the buyers of the apartments by advertising in the brochure that Mayfair Tower was within the postal zone of New Delhi.

The investigating officials also have to look into the role of the Housing Development Finance Corporation, which provided loans to Ajay Enterprises after the builder mortgaged Mayfair Tower with it.