The first case was registered on January 9, on a complaint filed by a Jhunjhunu (Rajasthan) resident accusing Laxmi Narayan Meena of obtaining his signatures on two forms after misleading him. Two more cases were registered on January 17 and 19, invoking provisions of cheating, forgery, using forged documents as genuine and other sections of the IPC.

Deepak Kumar, who allegedly blew the lid off the scam after he fell out with some real-estate agents, M L Gautam, an ex-DDA employee, Raju Ram, Laxmi Narayan Meena, Vijay Pal and Suresh Kumar Meena have been arrested by the police.

Two others, Satbir Singh and Dinesh Dral, were arrested in connection with providing fake documents.

Jeet Ram, the seventh person to be arrest in this case, was held on April 28 for allegedly providing Rs 15 lakh to M L Gautam.

Gautam also issued post-dated cheques in favour of Jeet Ram as security.