2024 Supreme(Online)(DEL) 26580
DELHI HIGH COURT
NEETU SINGH – Appellant
Versus
STATE NCT OF DELHI & ANR. – Respondent
BAIL_APPLN-2385_2023
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
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Judgment delivered on: 18.01.2024
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BAIL APPLN. 2385/2023
NEETU SINGH
..... Applicant
versus
STATE NCT OF DELHI & ANR.
..... Respondents
Advocates who appeared in this case:
For the Applicant
: Mr. Jaspreet Singh Rai, Ms. Sukhdeep Kaur
Rai, Mr. Ravi Kumar, Mr. Linoy Varghese,
Mr. Ankur Singh & Mr. Shwetabh Kumar,
Advocates
For the Respondent
: Mr. Yudhvir Singh Chauhan, APP for the
State with Insp. Yad Ram Yadav, PS EOW.
CORAM
HON’BLE MR JUSTICE AMIT MAHAJAN
JUDGMENT
AMIT MAHAJAN, J
1.
The present application is filed under Section 439 of the Code of
Criminal Procedure, 1973 (‘Cr.P.C’) for grant of Regular bail in FIR
No. 54/2016, dated 05.05.2016, under Sections 406/420/120B/174A of
the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (‘IPC’), registered at Police Station
Economic Offences Wing, Delhi.
Digitally Signed
By:SANJAY KUMAR
Signing Date:18.01.2024
22:26:34
Signature Not Verified
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2.
The FIR No. 54/2016 was registered at the behest of a joint
complaint of ten complainants, Ms. Nidhi Singh and others, alleging
that M/s Value Infracon India Private Limited (hereafter ‘Company’)
had assured the complainants of providing flats in the Meadows Project
but on the contrary defrauded the complainants by selling the already
allotted flats to different buyers, multiple times. It was also alleged that
the company had siphoned approximately ₹10 crores, with regard to the
booking of thirty-one flats received from the complainants, to the
accounts of its sister concerns.
3.
It is alleged that the company, through its Managing Director,
Mr. Pramod Kumar Singh, who is the husband of the applicant, and
other Directors, launched a housing project namely “Meadows Vistas”
situated at Village Morta, Raj Nagar Extension, Ghaziabad. It was
assured by the company that the project shall be completed within a
period of three years from the date of booking and that the flats were
free from all kinds of encumbrances and the title was clear.
4.
It is alleged that the Directors, Mr. Pramod Kumar Singh and the
applicant, through their representatives, Mr. Ashish Verma, and Mr.
Vipin Saroha, approached the potential investors to buy the flats in the
said project. Believing the assurances, many investors, including the
complainants, booked the flats in the said project vide tripartite
agreements executed amongst the complainants, the company and the
concerned banks, which extended the loans to the said purchasers.
5.
It is alleged that the company made arrangements with the bank
officials and sanctioned and disbursed the loans on the already allotted
Digitally Signed
By:SANJAY KUMAR
Signing Date:18.01.2024
22:26:34
Signature Not Verified
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flat / units which were sold twice or thrice to different buyers. The
complainant, Ms. Nidhi Singh, was shocked to know that the two flats
No. A-126 and D-094, allotted to her, were further sold by the company
to its sister concern, M/s Niparth Enterprises and Mrs. Vinita
Kesarwani, respectively.
6.
A total of twenty complaints were received at Economic
Offences Wing, against the company, and the present FIR No. 54/2016,
dated 05.05.2016, was registered under Sections 406/420/120B/174A
of the IPC at Economic Offences Wing, Delhi. All the Directors,
including the applicant, were made co-accused in the FIR.
7.
The applicant was the director of the company from 30.09.2013
to 21.08.2014 and is also mentioned in the FIR as an accused. The
applicant holds 11% of equity in M/s Niparth Enterprises.
8.
It is alleged that the applicant and her husband did not join the
investigation and were summoned multiple times. On 30.10.2018, the
applicant and her husband were declared as proclaimed offenders by the
learned CMM, Patiala House Courts, Delhi. Thereafter, on 07.12.