NEW DELHI: A 63-year-old man was arrested for allegedly selling a church property on Rajpur Road by creating false documents, police said on Saturday. The accused, Shoral Bobby Dass, was arrested from the Civil Lines area in Banda (Uttar Pradesh) recently.
Additional commissioner of police (EOW) RK Singh said that one Sulochana Prakash, president of Women’s Christian Temperance of India, had earlier claimed that her organisation was the bona fide owner of the property at Rajpur Road.
“She alleged that one Ramesh Chander Aggarwal in connivance with one Sunil Kumar and one Ajay Gupta hatched a criminal conspiracy and prepared false and fabricated documents about the property,” Singh said.
During investigation, the role of co-accused John Augustine and Dass emerged. On April 6, 2005, a general power of attorney (GPA) was executed by “Indian Church Trustees chairman Augustine” in favour of Dass. However, further probe revealed that Augustine never held the post of chairman of Indian Church Trustees nor the post of Metropolitan.
“Augustine was never given any right or authority to manage any of the church or the property of the church, so the GPA executed by Augustine in favour of the accused, Dass, and further execution of GPA in favour of Ramesh Aggarwal was null and void,” police said.
The team that arrested the accused was led by DCP (EOW) Rajeev Ranjan.
