FIR Against Ansal Group For Cheating, Organised Crime In UP

The action comes after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath instructed officials to take strict action in the matter and safeguard homebuyers' interest.

The FIR was lodged at the Gomti Nagar police station in Lucknow on Tuesday evening.

Source : ABPLIVE AI

The Uttar Pradesh Police has registered an FIR against real estate developer Ansal Group for alleged cheating, breach of trust, criminal conspiracy and organised crime.

The action comes after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath instructed officials to take strict action in the matter and safeguard homebuyers' interest. The Chief Minister also invoked the group's name inside the state assembly to slam opposition Samajwadi Party. He accused SP of favouring such builders during its regime.

The FIR was lodged at the Gomti Nagar police station in Lucknow on Tuesday evening.

FIR Details

It names as accused Ansal Properties and Infra Limited Promoters, Pranav Ansal, Sushil Ansal, Sunil Kumar Gupta, Francette Patrica Atkinson and Vinay Kumar Singh (Director).

They have been booked under BNS sections 316(5) (criminal breach of trust), 318(4)(cheating), 338 (forgery of valuable security, will, etc), 336(3)(forgery for cheating), 340(2)(using forged document as genuine), 61(2)(criminal conspiracy), 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), 351(2)(criminal intimidation) and 111 (organised crime), according to a copy of the FIR, seen by PTI.

The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has admitted Ansal Properties and Infrastructure Limited (APIL) into the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), 2016, as of February 25.

The tribunal's decision follows a petition by IL&FS Financial Services Limited (IL&FS) regarding a loan default amounting to Rs 257 crores.

IL&FS Financial Services, acting as the financial creditor, alleged that the listed entity Ansal API failed to repay loans totalling Rs 257 crore. It also claimed that while Ansal API had reached a settlement agreement in 2022, the company did not adhere to its terms.