• ACCUSED AND HER HUSBAND WERE DECLARED PROCLAIMED OFFENDERS BY SEVERAL COURTS OF DELHI AND HARYANA IN MULTIPLE CASES REGISTERED BY DELHI POLICE, HARYANA POLICE, CBI AND E.D. • THE ACCUSED ALONG WITH HER HUSBAND AND OTHERS INVOLVED IN THE GURUGRAM-MANESAR LAND SCAM OF 1500 CRORE RUPEES, INVESTIGATED BY CBI AND ED. • ESCAPING FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES BY ASSUMING FAKE IDENTITIES.

The team of ARSC, Crime Branch has successfully detected and arrested a Proclaimed Offender and Fugitive Serial Fraudster Sona Bansal w/o Atul Bansal from Mumbai, Maharashtra, wanted in 23 cases of cheating registered in Delhi and Haryana by various Law Enforcement Central and State Agencies.

The team of ARSC, Crime Branch meticulously worked on detecting the most wanted fugitive couple, involved in more than 23 cases of cheating, who were continuously changing their locations in India and abroad to escape from the clutches of various Law Enforcement Agencies.

On the basis of ground work and field intelligence, a raiding team was constituted comprising of SI Rahul Garg, ASI Ravinder Singh, ASI Shashikant, HC Gaurav Tyagi, HC Abdhesh Sharma, W/HC Seema led by Inspr. Arun Sindhu and Inspr. K. K. Sharma, under the close supervision of Sh. Arvind Kumar, ACP/ARSC, Crime Branch, Delhi.

The information was developed and the team was sent to Mumbai,  in search of the wanted accused persons. On the basis of inputs received by HC Gaurav Tyagi, a raid was conducted in a high end society in Mumbai and the said accused Sona Bansal was arrested from there. Her husband Atul Bansal was not found there and his whereabouts are being ascertained. Though both are natives of Delhi, they had been residing there with the assumed identities of Mrs. Sulochana and Arun Gupta prepared on fake and forged documents. 

Brief facts of the case are that accused Atul Bansal and his wife Sona Bansal were wanted in several high profile white collar economic crimes, including the ‘Gurugram-Manesar Industrial Model Township Land Grab Scam’ amounting to 1500 crore rupees.

Both were the directors of the builder firm named after their son “Aditya Build Well (ABW) Infrastructure Limited”. Enforcement Directorate (E.D.) had initiated money laundering investigation on the basis of FIR registered at Manesar police station, Gurugram and thereafter investigation was taken up by the Anti-Corruption Bureau, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), against the alleged accused including unknown public servants of Haryana Government and other individuals.

Several alleged persons including Atul Bansal and his wife Mrs Sona Bansal of ABW Infrastructure Limited were charge-sheeted by the Enforcement Directorate (E.D.).

The E.D. found in its probe that builders/private entities grabbed the land from farmers and land holders at nominal rates by instilling in them the fear acquisition of their land. Believing the accused and under the fear of loosing their land to acquisition, the farmers and land holders sold their lands to such private entities, who ultimately sold the same to various builders, who obtained licences and gained handsome profits in a fraudulent manner. Most of the land parcels were purchased by ABW Infrastructure Ltd. group, which were controlled by Atul Bansal, Mrs. Sona Bansal and others.

After obtaining licenses, A.B.W. Infrastructure Limited further sold the licensed/unlicensed lands and building licences to some private persons/developers and thereby earned windfall profits.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) also registered a criminal case against the accused persons in September, 2015 following allegations that private builders, in collusion with some public servants of the Haryana government, had bought around 400 acres land from farmers and land-owners of different villages in Gurugram district at throw away prices. At that time, the land was valued at around 1,600 crore rupees, but the same were bought by the alleged builders for around 100 crore rupees only.
The accused were declared P.O. in the said case by CBI Panchkula Court in April 2018.

INTERROGATION: Mr.Ravindra Singh Yadav, IPS, Special Commissioner of Police ,  said, during interrogation, she has taken the alibi that her husband Atul Bansal has recently expired, which is being verified as there is neither any proof of same nor could she produce any document regarding his death. Apart from this land scam, the firm also did not deliver in any of its projects to buyers, situated in Delhi/NCR. In this regard, multiple cases of cheating were registered against ABW Infrastructure Limited. Multiple cases are being investigated by E.O.W, Delhi Police, and accused Atul Bansal and Sona Bansal were also declared P.O. in all these cases.

Mr.Ravindra Singh Yadav, IPS, Special Commissioner of Police ,  said, during interrogation, she has taken the alibi that her husband Atul Bansal has recently expired, which is being verified as there is neither any proof of same nor could she produce any document regarding his death. Apart from this land scam, the firm also did not deliver in any of its projects to buyers, situated in Delhi/NCR. In this regard, multiple cases of cheating were registered against ABW Infrastructure Limited. Multiple cases are being investigated by E.O.W, Delhi Police, and accused Atul Bansal and Sona Bansal were also declared P.O. in all these cases.

PROFILE OF ACCUSED: Sona Bansal w/o Atul Bansal Raheja r/o Mumbai, Maharastra, was one of the directors of real-estate firm namely ABW Infrastructure Ltd., Saket District Centre, Saket, Delhi. The fugitive couple was in the process to flee abroad to evade arrest and escape forever from the LEAs and the criminal justice system. In Mumbai they were staying with assumed identities prepared through forged documents. Cash reward of Rs. 50,000/- was also declared by Delhi Police on her arrest.

She and her husband Atul Bansal had been declared Proclaimed Offender in the following cases: RC-CHG-2015/0019 of 2015, CBI.,  165/16, U/S 409/420/120B/174A IPC, PS EOW, Delhi,  128/18, U/S 409/420/34 IPC, PS Saket, Delhi,  017/18, U/S 409/420/34 IPC, PS Saket, Delhi, 5. 224/19, U/S 420/406/120B/34/174A IPC, PS Saket, Delhi,  243/18, U/S 409/420/34 IPC, PS Saket, Delhi,  111/19, U/S 420/406/120B/34/174A IPC, PS EOW, Delhi,  296/18, U/S 420/406/120B/34/174A IPC, PS Saket, Delhi,  232/18, U/S 420/406/120B/34/174A IPC, PS Saket, Delhi,  471/18, U/S 420/409/34 IPC, PS Saket, Delhi ,  470/18, U/S 420/409/34 IPC, PS Saket, Delhi
12. 614/17, U/S 420/409/34 IPC, PS EOW, Delhim,  276/18, U/S 420/409/34 IPC, PS EOW, Delhi,  733/16, U/S 420/409/34 IPC, PS EOW, Delhi,  734/16, U/S 420/409/34 IPC, PS EOW, Delhi
16. 540/18, U/S 420/409/34 IPC, PS EOW, Delhi,  727/16, U/S 420/409/34 IPC, PS EOW, Delhi,  084/18, U/S 420/406/120B/174A IPC, PS EOW, Delhi,  605/17, U/S 420/406/120B/174A IPC, PS Saket, Delhi,  281/17, U/S 420/409/17A IPC, PS Saket, Delhi,  09/18, U/S 420/406/120B IPC, PS EOW, Delhi,  11/18, U/S 420/120B, PS EOW, Delhi, 10/18, U/S 420/120B, PS EOW, Delhi