India, Nov. 1 -- A Delhi court has acquitted a former IAS officer and 10 others in an alleged forgery and corruption case linked to the revival of a Cooperative Group Housing Society (CGHS).
District Judge Jagdish Kumar was hearing the case filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in 2007 against former Registrar of Cooperative societies (RCS) Narayan Diwakar and 10 others for various offences, including cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy.
Diwakar was also booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act provisions for allegedly reviving the said society based on forged documents. The case pertains to the '4,000-crore cooperative group housing societies (CGHS) scandal in Delhi, involving the fraudulent revival of defunct soc...