Lucknow, March 5 -- An FIR has been registered against real estate developer Ansal Properties for allegedly duping homebuyers.

The FIR also mentions the name of Infra Limited Promoters, Pranav Ansal, Sushil Ansal, Sunil Kumar Gupta, Francette Patrica Atkinson and Vinay Kumar Singh (Director).

The FIR has been lodged at the Gomti Nagar police station in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh under sections 316(5), 318(4), 61(2), 352, 351(2), 338, 336(3), 340(2), 111 of Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita (BNS) and Section 3 of Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, 1984.

This comes a day after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath directed officials to take strict action in the matter and register an FIR in all districts of the state where the homebuy...