New Delhi, Jan 12: Deepak Kumar, the law graduate who blew the lid off the irregularities in the allotment of DDA flats earmarked for SC/STs after he fell out with some property dealers, had collected details of over 350 people belonging to the ST category from Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan.

Kumar, who was arrested on Sunday for allegedly planning and executing the "whole fraud", will be taken to Jhunjhunu tomorrow for further investigations by Delhi Police which will confront him with applicants and Laxmi Narayan Meena, who was first arrested in connection with the case.

The law graduate was arrested after Meena, who was caught from Jhunjhunu on Friday, told police that Kumar had collected details of SC/ST category people from him.

A senior police official said Kumar, who was remanded to eight days police custody by a local court, had collected details of at least 366 people belonging to ST category from Jhunjhunu, which he had passed over to some property dealers who were planning to corner DDA flats reserved for SC/STs.

Police had recovered a list containing details of people belonging to ST category running into 18 pages, ICICI bank loan forms and 22 pay-in slips in the name of some persons from him, the official said adding the recovery of pay-in slips indicate that loans were paid in some names.

Two PAN cards of Kumar bearing different surnames were also recovered during the searches at his Paschim Vihar residence, he said adding another 84 sheets were seized which contained names of applicants mostly from Rajasthan.

Investigators are also planning to conduct searches at Kumar's office at west Delhi's Janakpuri District Centre for which a search warrant will be procured from the court, the official said.

Police claim that his office was allegedly used by him and other property dealers to hatch the conspiracy to "rig" the draw of lots for over 5,000 DDA flats by applying in the name of SC/STs to corner the flats.

The official said Kumar met the property dealers in July 2008 when he was approached by one to hatch a conspiracy to corner the flats.

Meena, who was taken to Rajasthan's Jhunjhunu village by police yesterday, had allegedly submitted 177 application forms using documents obtained fraudulently.

"We want to establish whether Kumar has any links with Meena as the latter claimed. So we are taking him to Jhunjhunu," the official said.

Investigations have revealed that he was an associate of three other property dealers, who planned the fraud, the official said adding Kumar filed the complaint after he had some argument with them over some issue.

Asked when they were expecting the report on the hard disk of DDA draw of lots sent for forensic examinations, the official said they expect that the report will throw light into whether any officials of the housing agency was involved in it.

A case under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code dealing with cheating by impersonation, inducing delivery of property, forgery and using as genuine a forged document has been invoked against Kumar. Meena was also charged under similar provisions.

Personnel of Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police's Crime Branch, which is investigating into a complaint of irregularities in the allotment, is also conducting searches at various places in Delhi and Rajasthan in connection with the probe. Meanwhile, Indian Justice Party chief Udit Raj lashed out at police for arresting Kumar saying it was "not fair" to target a person who helped in revealing the "facts".

"What was the police doing for the past two months? We informed police about the things to come. We asked the DDA to stop the process. Now, police is targeting a person who helped in unravelling the crime though he was part of it initially," Raj told reporters here.

Raj claimed that on October 31, he approached police informing them about the "plans" of some people trying to apply for the DDA flats using forged documents.

Kumar, who fell out with a cartel of property dealers planning to commit the fraud, had tipped off Raj about the plan to corner the flats.

Kumar had on November 10 filed a complaint in Paschim Vihar police station claiming that one Rakesh Aggarwal and Bhaskar were involved in cheating and playing fraud on people belonging SC/STs in the allotment of DDA flats.

A body representing successful applicants of the DDA's recent housing scheme today demanded that the process of handing over flats to "genuine" allottees should be started soon while the Delhi High Court refused stay on a petition seeking quashing of recently held draw of flats.

The EOW is investigating into a complaint that it received on December 16 that some property dealers had connived with DDA officials and applied for flats under fictitious names to get the flats under SC/ST quota.

A number of allottees in Rajasthan were unaware that they were allotted the flats and admitted that some people from Delhi who came to their villages had taken their signatures on DDA forms. In some cases, applicants did not even know that applications were submitted in their names.

Bureau Report