The Delhi Police have arrested a retired telephone assistant ML Gautam who allegedly advised Deepak Kumar that he should get more people from the ST category to apply.
"He told him that he would earn more profits as there were fewer applicants under the ST category," said Additional commissioner of police, SBK Singh.
The police is still collecting evidence against the employee. His contribution to the scam and his share in the pie is yet to be known.
Investigations seem to be moving beyond Rajasthan and Delhi. Officials say that there is information about the involvement of people in the North East and Jharkhand too.
Investigators want more and more people to come forward with complaints of fraud. For the very same purpose they have started advertising in Delhi
and Rajasthan and may soon use the same methodology in the North East and Jharkhand too.
However, the successful alotees like Madhu Kumar are a distraught lot. She and her husband were fourth time lucky and were looking forward to move out of their one bedroom government accomodation. Her family is having sleepless nights since the time the scam came to light.
"Humne loan lya tha. Itne investment huya hai. Us pe interest bharna pad rahan hai. Humare jaise logon ka to budget hi hil jaata hai (We took loan and we're paying interest on that. It's people like us whose budget gets effected," said Madhu Kumar.
Madhu's eyes fill up with tears at the thought of losing a draw that she had duly won. Her only aim was to gift her children their own dream home. Her dream like those of 5,000 other alotees now hangs in suspension.
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