Gurugram, July 3 -- A resident of DLF Phase I has been booked along with five senior revenue officials and an official of the Haryana Shahari Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP), for allegedly selling over 6.25 acres of government land that had been acquired in 1988 and 2009 for industrial development and the Badshahpur drain project in Sector 37, officials of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) said on Wednesday. They added that the suspect is not absconding and will be arrested soon. According to ACB officials, the resident who is the prime accused and owns a metal sheet and auto parts manufacturing factory in Sector 37, allegedly sold the acquired land to the wife and close relatives of HSVP and revenue department officials after executing sale deeds in their favour in 2022. The man also transferred a major part of the land which he actually owned, in his son's and brother's name simultaneously. The case came to light after Praveen Rao, a Rewari-based RTI activist, collected sale deeds and internal communication-including a 2022 letter from the HSVP estate officer warning against fraudulent sales-and filed a complaint with the ACB on May 16, 2023, according to officials. Alok Mittal, additional director general of police (ACB), said that following clearance from the Haryana government and a detailed inquiry, an FIR was registered on Monday at the ACB police station in Gurugram against the accused DLF resident, HSVP and revenue officials including three nayab tehsildars and their family under charges of criminal conspiracy, cheating, criminal breach of trust by a public servant, and corruption. Mittal said the documents they have clearly establishes that the revenue department officials posted in Kadipur tehsil and a HSVP official posted in Gurugram in 2022 were the major beneficiaries of this scam. "Connivance of government officials with the suspect in the fraudulent sale of government acquired land is evident. At present, there are seven named accused in the FIR including six officials but with investigation, involvement of more officials may surface," Mittal said, adding they will soon make arrests. A senior ACB officer said the prime accused originally owned over nine acres of land in Sector 37, of which 6.8 acres were acquired by HSVP in 1988. The land acquisition was challenged in court, but the Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the petition in May 2001. Despite this, ownership records were never updated, and the accused continued to be listed as the owner of the full nine acres in the revenue register, officers said, on condition of anonymity....