India, Aug. 24 -- A Delhi-based gang was arrested for impersonating a Gurugram landowner in court in May 2023 and illegally claiming Rs.5.12 crore that the government had awarded him as compensation for land acquired to build the Southern Peripheral Road, police said on Saturday. The fraud was uncovered by a patwari in December 2024 when the gang was trying to embezzle Rs.6.38 lakh from the government, police added.

The accused were identified as Tushar alias Kaku, 21, Krishna Kumar, 50, Dinesh Kashyap alias Rathor, 38, Pankaj Kumar Kela alias Dharm, 47, and Sushil Kumar Darda, 48, police said, adding that they were arrested over the past two months. The mastermind of the gang, whose name has been withheld by police, is still at large, p...