New Delhi, August 18, 2007 -  The CBI today arrested three persons, including two senior DDA officials, and registered another case against nine people, including alleged kingpin Ashok Malotra and MCD officials, in its probe into the fraudulent allotment of land in the capital.

The day began with several CBI teams conducting raids at 12 places in the city, Gurgaon and Palwal (Haryana) and Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) after registering cases against MCD officials, including the director of the slum upgradation and rehabilitation unit, as per saharasamay.

The case was registered by the CBI after it arrested R.S. Sandhu, manager of Malhotra's canteen in the Delhi assembly. He was remanded to CBI custody for 10 days.

According to the CBI, MCD officials acting in connivance with MCD officials allegedly allotted a large number of plots in the names of fictitious persons under the Resettlement Scheme of Molarban that involved around 600 to 700 plots.

The CBI alleged a large number of these allotments were thereafter sold for wrongful gains.

The case is the fallout of the multi-crore scam involving Malhotra, who is now in CBI custody.

Malhotra allegedly entered into a criminal conspiracy with DDA officials to fraudulently acquire and sell land earmarked for the resettlement of slum dwellers.

The CBI summoned DDA officials named in the scam and arrested two of them -- Deputy Director A.K. Mishra and J.R. Gaur, who works in DDA's slum division -- after they failed to satisfactorily answer several questions, officials said.