gurgaon sector 7 resident alowk rastogi was nabbed on thursday allegedly for fleecing up to 100 gurgaon homebuyers of crores of rupees by selling them property in nonexistent townships rastogi who owns klazina consultants limited took booking amounts of rs 4510 lakh each in cash from over 100 gurgaon residents two years ago for plots flats standalone houses commercial property etc in fictitious townships near neemrana having paid the booking amount for what appeared to be a steal deal eight of the buyers realised the township didnt exist and filed a police complaint late in 2014 at sadar police station police who initiated a probe then reported that the accused had gone underground then on wednesday they received a tipoff that he was about to visit his sohna road office on thursday laid a trap and arrested himthe company advertised the properties online and in newspapers said sector 46 resident narendra yadav he added rastogi managed to produce enough documents to hoodwink even seasoned brokers into believing in the existence of the project in neemrana however after taking rs 4510 lakh from each of us when he went missing we realised the projects were fakea sector 50 resident who had paid rs 10 lakh said my husband is a real estate broker he checked each and every document rastogi produced as proof he also showed us pictures of the project with his companys hoarding on the plot we thought it would be a profitable deal as 160 sq yd plots were going for rs 89 lakhrastogi also printed brochures of the township which showed a map with infrastructure reportedly his team even took yadavs family to the alleged site for a view of the location we drove down to neemrana a sales person from his team showed us barren land and said the township would come up on it there was a hoarding on the site announcing the project it all appeared in order said yadavaccording to the website it provides services in real estate ites software development realty advisory and business incubation the real estate section states it has three residential projects in neemrana gateway gateway residency and gateway towers and a commercial township gateway courtyard the website claims rastogi is a graduate of standford university and an mbaat sadar police station investigating officer suresh kumar said he took booking amounts from many by selling fictitious townships he advertised projects with online and newspaper inserts and through brokerssome of the brokers ended up becoming his customers nonu chanda who has been running a brokerage for the past 5 years in sushant lok 1 bought a plot from him he couldnt have done this without help from government officials he showed me enough supporting documents either they were expert fakes or he got them forged with help of officials he said he alleged rastogi had even shown him copies of the license