Newsline could not contact Roshan Lal, the third allottee from the town; his family refused to discuss the issue. Lal is also a tailor.

Attar Singh Badhana, the former MLA from Bayana, meanwhile told Newsline over telephone: “Neither I nor any of my family members are involved in giving money or support to anyone to apply for the DDA housing scheme.”

Police case
Bayana police officials said “some elements” in the town have been using records of people from the largely illiterate and poor Scheduled Castes to “extort money and property”.

In an incident that could have some bearing with the alleged DDA scam, an FIR lodged with the local police on January 3 (Newsline has a copy) said employees of Bharatpur Central Cooperative Bank connived with a few locals to get loans approved in names of people from Scheduled Caste communities whose families had migrated decades ago.