New Delhi: A Delhi court last month convicted 13 people, including a former IAS officer, in a case where defunct societies were revived through forged records to secure land at rates far below market prices.

The Safdarjung Cooperative Group Housing Society (CGHS) case, part of a larger Rs 4,000-crore racket involving 135 societies, dates to 2005, when Delhi High Court first flagged illegalities and ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to conduct a full inquiry.

Twenty years later, the conviction offers a detailed account of how manipulation, forgery, and fabrication of cooperative society records facilitated illegal land allotments from the Delhi Development Authority (DDA). Show Full Article

The court said the documents in this case had opened a “Pandora’s box” of illegal

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