India, May 17 -- The Gamdevi police have booked the promoters and staff of prominent city-based developer Rohan Lifescapes and its subsidiary Goodwill Properties for criminal breach of trust and cheating.

According to the first information report (FIR), the developer had in 2003 entered into an agreement for a redevelopment project with the original inhabitants of five plots near Mani Bhavan. But some of them were not provided alternate homes despite the utilisation of the entire floor space index for the five plots during construction of the Shiv Tapi building.

The FIR was registered under sections 318(4), 316(2), 316(5) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita in March, based on a complaint by one of the original inhabitants who did no...