Noida official sold 60 buyers fake plots

Sixty people have lodged complaints with the Noida Authority, claiming one of its employees cheated them out of crores of rupees on the pretext of allotting them plots in the city’s prime locations.

Noida Authority officials on Thursday said prima facie, the employee, Nitin Rathi, has been found guilty and that departmental and legal action will soon be initated against him. “We have received several complaints against Rathi, an assistant in the Authority’s sports department. He had taken money from these buyers on the pretext of allotting them plots and had even generated fake documents to gain their confidence,” said Noida Authority’s additional CEO V K Panwar.