Properties of 8 Shahberi builders attached

Greater Noida: Police on Friday attached Rs 17 crore worth of properties belonging to eight developers accused of carrying out illegal construction in Shahberi village, where the collapse of two ‘unfit’ buildings claimed nine lives in 2018.
The attached properties include 31 flats and 25 shops, along with other movable and non movable assets of the accused builders. These flats and shops were those kept by the accused for their own use in the projects that they had developed in the past few years. Police said the eight accused were among the 19 developers who had been booked under the Gangster Act, a year after the twin building collapse. They are accused of constructing illegal buildings with substandard material and without getting the layout plan approved and selling them to innocent buyers.
“Their properties have been attached under Sector 14 of the Gangster Act after the special investigation team prepared the list of their assets, which they are believed to have accumulated from defrauding people,” said Harish Chander, DCP of central Noida, on Friday.