NORTH WEST DISTT. DATED 3.6.2013
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BLIND ROBBERY OF ABOUT 27 LACS SOLVED WITHIN 12 HOURS, FOUR ACCUSED ARRESTED
Four accused persons arrested
Rs.24.96 lacs recovered.
With the arrest of four persons by team of PS Maurya Enclave and Spl. Staff/NWD of North-West District, a blind robbery of about 27 Lacs has been solved within 12 hours and a major portion of robbed amount has been recovered.
INCIDENT
Briefly the facts of case are that on 1.6.13, a PCR call was received at PS Maurya Enclave at 12.14 PM regarding robbery of a laptop and bag near Power House, RU Block, Pitam Pura, Delhi. On visiting the spot, it was found that one businessman, an importer of cloth, was coming from his home and when reached at his office at RU Block, Pitam Pura and parked his I-20 car bearing No.DL-8CT 4114 at the service road, two motor cycle borne criminals attacked on him and robbed his two bags, one containing a laptop and another containing Rs.26.79 Lacs cash and office documents. As per the statement of the complainant, a case of robbery was immediately registered vide FIR No. 186/13 dated 1.6.2013 u/s 392/34 IPC PS Maurya Enclave Delhi and investigation was taken up. Considering the day light robbery and gravity of the offence, Special Staff/NWD was also attached with the investigation. A special team was deployed under the supervision of ACP/Saraswatiu Vihar, Sh.Ashish Anan and ACP/Operation, Sh. Aas Mohammad consisting of Inspr. Parveen Kumar (SHO/Maurya Enclave), Inspr. Shyam Sunder (I/C Spl.Staff/NWD), SI Suraj Pal, SI Rajiv Ranjan, HC.Prithvi, HC.Devender, HC.Dharambir, HC Bijender, HC Anil Malik, HC Vinod, Ct. Shripal, Ct.Ravi Rana, Ct.Sandeep, Ct.Sombir, Ct.Vinod, Ct.Prithvi, Ct.Pyarelal etc. The team visited the spot and enquired the complainant and focused on all the employees of the complainant who were having knowledge of the cash. During the course of investigation, it was revealed that one employee Guddu Kumar S/o Shankar Ram R/O Vill - Naroj, Post Ratanpur, PS Jale, Distt Darbanga, Bihar working with the complainant since last 3 years, was having specific knowledge of the money transaction of the complainant. His character and general conduct was verified and it was revealed that he had suffered losses in IPL betting and also revealed that he is in touch with some suspicious persons of Sultan Puri area also. Following these information, the team zeroed in on Guddu and intensive interrogation of the suspect Guddu resulted in revelation of complete plan of robbery with names of all accused persons. The team immediately rushed at the residence and other hide outs of the accused persons and within 12 hours of the robbery, team arrested another accused Rajeev S/o Ram Parkash R/o D-4/58, Sultan Puri, Delhi and also recovered a major portion of robbed amount Rs.23 lacs and laptop bag with all the documents of the complainant. Other two accused persons had escaped from Delhi and a team was sent to Bihar also and today both escaped accused persons namely Sachin Mehta S/O Manoj Mehta R/O H.No. 261, Pitam Pura Village, Delhihad also been arrested and Rs.1.96 lacs has been recovered from their possession also. Detailed interrogation revealed that the accused persons had made bet in IPL matches and lost lacs of rupees. Guddu who was serving with complainant was having knowledge about the money transactions of the complainant and they all planned to rob that amount in order to cover their losses. They worked out on their plan and tried to make it so full proof that they left their motor cycle abandant in the area of PS Subhash Place after the crime so that in case of getting number of the motor cycle, if police reaches to them, they may take a plea that their motor cycle had been stolen. Motor cycle No. DL-10 SA-3863 has also been recovered.
NAME AND PROFILE OF ACCUSED:
1.Guddu Kumar aged 19 years was born in 1994 in a middle class family. His father works as a Chowkidar in a building of Lok Vihar, Pitam Pura. Guddu Kumar was working in the office of the complainant for the last 3 years and he developed habits of betting in IPL matches and suffered loss of one lac rupees.
2.Rajeev S/o Ram Parkash R/o D-4/58 Sultan Puri, Delhi Aged 28 yrs. (8th Class) He belong to a poor family and studied upto VIII class and working in Electric Switch factory. He also lost about Rs. 50,000/- in IPL matches.
3.Sachin Mehta S/O Manoj Mehta R/O H.No. 261, PitamPuraVillageDelhi(Under-Graduate). He was born on 18.05.1992 in a middle class family residing at Malka Ganj.
4.Ajay Kumar S/O Virender Kumar R/O N-61, Krishan Vihar,DelhiAged 22 years, is an illiterate and doing nothing. He was also residing in Pitam Pura earlier and came in contact with other accused persons.
RECOVERY:-
1.Rs.24.96 Lacs cash
2.Robbed laptop
3.Two robbed bags.
4.Office documents
5.The Red Pulsar motor cycle used in the crime
6.Mobile phones of accused persons, used for organising the crime
Further investigation is in progress and involvement of the accused persons in any other offence is being ascertained.
(Dr.P.KARUNAKARAN)IPS
Dy.Commissioner of Police
North West District, Delhi
NORTH WEST DISTT.DATED 3.6.2013
PRESS RELEASE
COMMERCIAL FRAUD OF MORE THAN RS. 20 CRORE BUSTED,
THREE ARRESTED, RS. 1.26 CRORES SEIZED
Three cheats arrested.
Cheated amount Rs 1.26 crores seized.
16 Fictitious firms and their bank accounts unearthed.
Cheated about 19 banks on the pretext of getting commercial credit/loan sanctioned from them against fake property documents.
1 Car [DL2CAC8289], 2 mobile phones recovered.
INTRODUCTION
With the arrest of three persons, an ongoing conspiracy to dupe various Banks via Cash Credit sanctions based on mortgage of fraudulent property documents, has been unearthed by the staff of P.S. Maurya Enclave, North West District of the Delhi police. The defrauded amount revealed is already totaling to multi-crores of rupees. The cheats were found involved in duping about 19 banks by submitting copies and forged documents of same properties to avail Cash Credit with these banks. They were operating 16 firms with no bonafide business and had developed a team and scheme of channelizing the funds extracted from the Cash Credit to build non-existent revenue/turnover in these firms to raise further such Credit sanctions. Case FIR No. 154/13 U/S 420/467/468/471/34/120B IPC, dated 6/5/13, P.S. Maurya Enclave has been registered against them and is under investigation.
INCIDENT
A complaint was received from DGM/Bank of Maharashtra regarding cheating and forgery by one Anoop Kumar Gupta along with Jagmohan Mittal and others. The accused Anoop had approached Bank Of Maharashtra, Pitam Pura branch for sanction of Cash Credit loan in his firm M/S SONAL TRADERS against equitable mortgage of property No. 7, Sainik Vihar, Pitam Pura and deposited seemingly original title deeds with the bank besides completing other formalities. The CC limit of amount 2.55 crores was fixed, and on searching the charge of equitable mortgage with CERSAI, it was revealed that the same property was already mortgage with Bank of Baroda, Kirti Nagar Branch to M/S ASHOK AGENCY whose proprietor was Anoop Kumar Gupta. Later on, it was learnt that the same property is mortgaged with PNB, Ashok Vihar, Wazirpur Branch to M/S SHRI RAMA AGENCY. Shockingly, on physical verification of the property's Title Deeds with Bank of Baroda, it was found that they were having original papers of the same property with same date, Registration Nos., Volume No., Page Nos. and even the Serial Nos. of the Stamp Papers were same. On 28.2.2013, the CC account of M/S SONAL TRADERS revealed an outstanding balance of 91 lakhs. From the above mentioned facts which came to light that Anoop Kumar Gupta with common intention and conspiracy with Jagmohan Mittal has created more than one Title Deeds of the same property. Subsequently deceived and induced the bank into providing loan with the means of the forged documents.
INVESTIGATION AND INTERROGATION
Investigations revealed that Jagmohan Mittal & Anoop Kumar have acted in conspiracy with Pradeep & Vijay to help in maintain the falsehood that the Jagmohan Mittal & Anoop Kumar were operating bonafide firms with verifiable turnovers to dupe the banks to raise Cash Credit limit from them.
This was achieved by the following sequence of events,
a.Accused Pradeep & Vijay opened and operated a multitude of Current Accounts as Proprietors of Sham Firms with not underlying real Business in various Banks with the sole purpose of only depositing large amounts and then withdrawing the same from other Bank Accounts.
b.The large sums were borrowed from Accused Jagmohan Mittal & Anoop Kumar into these Sham Firms accounts and then further deposited these sums back into another set of Accounts operated by accused Jagmohan Mittal & Anoop Kumar.
c.This withdrawal and deposit scheme into the accounts maintained by Accused Jagmohan Mittal & Anoop Kumar helped the Accused Jagmohan Mittal & Anoop Kumar to project large working turnover in their Bank Accounts.
These false turnovers accrued in the accounts of firms of accused Jagmohan Mittal & Anoop Kumar were further used as an inducement to the Banks to raise further Cash Credit facilities in many other Banks by accused Jagmohan Mittal & Anoop Kumar.
Thus it has been revealed that the Accused Pradeep & Vijay were and continue to be part of a ongoing conspiracy to defraud various banks by falsifying Bank Cash Credit Audit Procedures.
The Accused Pradeep & Vijay also on regular intervals and repeatedly withdrew large sums in cash and handed it over to accused Jagmohan Mittal & Anoop Kumar, so as to gradually siphon out the net total sum raised in the Cash Credit Facility from all such Bank accounts operated by accused Jagmohan Mittal & Anoop Kumar.
This was done mainly so as not to raise any suspicion or trigger any internal Audit alerts in the Banks from where Accused Jagmohan Mittal & Anoop Kumar maintained the Cash Credit Accounts.
They were operating the following listed firms as revealed part of the investigations:
1. M/S Maha Laxmi Traders
2. M/S Sonal Traders
3. M/S United Stores
4. M/S Shri Rama Agency
5. M/S Ashok Agency
6. M/S Upadhyay Trading Co.
7. M/S Bhagwan Stores
8. M/S Shri Banke Bihari
9. M/S Umrao Singh Jagm
10. M/S Hanuman Traders
11. M/S Mittal and Co
12. M/S Suraj Sales Co
13. M/S Shyam Traders
14. M/S Shiva Traders
15. M/S Sunshine Enterprises
16. M/S Yashika Toys
Banks in which accounts of these firms are opened and used in fraud:
1. Allahabad Bank
2. Bank of Baroda
3. Bank of Maharastra
4. Citi Bank
5. IDBI
6. Indian Overseas Bank
7. Kotak Mahindra Bank
8. Nanital Bank Ltd.
9. Oriental Bank of Commerce
10. Punjab National Bank
11. SB Bikaner & Jaipur
12. ICICI
13. State Bank of India
14. UCO Bank
15. Yes Bank
16. Syndicate Bank
17. Corporation Bank
18. Central Bank
19. Axis Bank
NAME AND PROFILE OF ACCUSED
1.Anoop Kumar Gupta S/o late Sh. Prem Shankar Gupta R/o H.NO. – 215, Old Bank Street, Behind S.B.I., Rithala, Delhi, Age 35 years. He started these fraud activities after he was recruited by Jagmohan Mittal who is the primary mastermind of this conspiracy. Anoop & Jagmohan were mainly involved in getting Cash Credit sanctioned on fraudulent documents of properties in their name from these banks.
2.Pradeep Upadhyay S/o Dev Dutt Upadhyay, R/o C-10/128, Sector 5, Rohini, Delhi, Age 32 Years. He joined with Jagmohan Mittal and Anoop Kumar later. He was recruited to open multiple bank accounts in the names of non-existing Firms with various banks to help channel funds between other Bank accounts to create huge turnovers in the network of bank accounts maintained by the gang.
3.Vijay Bhushan Rustogi S/o Late Shr. Kishan Lal, R/o 10/52, Vishwas Nagar, Shahdra, Delhi, Age 52 years. He is Class 8th fail. He was working as a field boy in starting of his job and joined the racket of his boss Jagmohan Mittal later.
TEAM
1.Inspr. Parveen Kumar, SHO/Maurya Enclave
2.Inspr.Anil Sharma, PS Maurya Enclave
3.SI Sandeep
4.HC Baljeet Singh
5.HC Suresh Kumar
6.HC Anand Swarup
7.Ct. Somveer
Further investigation is in progress and involvement of the gang with other similar offences is being ascertained.
(P.KARUNAKARAN) IPS
Dy. Commissioner of Police
North West District, Delhi