Mumbai: Builder arrested for selling redeveloped flats of allottees in Goregaon housing society

Based on an FIR registered by a resident from a housing society in Goregaon, the Economic Offences Wing of the Mumbai police arrested developer Shekhar Dadarkar of SD Construction on charges of cheating

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Based on an FIR registered by a resident from a housing society in Goregaon, the Economic Offences Wing of the Mumbai police arrested developer Shekhar Dadarkar of SD Construction on charges of cheating.

According to a report from Times of India, Darshan Jhala, a resident of Siddharth Nagar Ekta Suprabhat Co-operative Housing Society, Goregaon, has filed a complaint against Dadarkar claiming he sold flats allotted to him and two others.

Society recidents say construction is far from over, despite the redevelopment deal being signed in 2007, and the builder had stopped paying them rents with arrears mounting up to Rs 2 crore.

Builder Shekhar Dadarkar, 450-sqft homes in the new construction, which he claimed would get completed in 30 months. He was also pulled up during a hearing for being "thoroughly dishonest with the court".

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