PRESS RELEASESOUTH DISTRICT DT: 01.01.2011

FOUR FRADUSTERS CHEATED A TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANY OF RS. 95 LACS ARRESTED: AROUND RS. 30 LACS INCLUDING ONE KG.GOLD RECOVERED.

INTRODUCTION:

With the arrest of four persons namly:

1. Manoj Pahwa, aged 34 years S/o Ram Kishan Pahwa R/o A-8/26 Ground Floor Sec. 17, Rohini, New Delhi ( Chartered Accountant ).

2. Varun Mittal, aged 23 years S/o S. C. Mittal R/o 90/1 Shastri Nagar, Meerut UP

(Aeronautical Engineer).

3. Rahul Sharma, 33 years S/o Tilak Raj Sharma R/o 1502 Ground Floor Maruti Vihar Gurgaon Haryana(Executive Accountant in Unitech Wireless).

4. Nitin Sharma, aged 24 years S/o Dinesh Kumar Sharma R/o 20 Satya Nagar, Modi Nagar Ghaziabad UP.

the South District police has busted a gang of cheats who had been involved in cheating a telecommunication company UNINOR( a joint venture of Telenor and Unitech, a Licencee of Deptt. of Telecommunication) of Rs. 95 lacs. With the arrest of these four persons cash Rs.6.48 lacs including one kilogramme gold( in biscuit shape) & some golden ornamants made out of the cheated amount have so far been recovered.

INCIDENT:

Sh. Vishal Jain, the representative and Senior Manager on behalf of Unitech Wireless Tamilnadu Pvt. Ltd., Unitech Wireless Delhi Pvt. Ltd and Unitech wireless North Pvt. Ltd, a joint venture company of Telenor(Norway based telecommunication company) and Unitech better known as Uninor and a licencee from Deptt. Of Telecommunication and having its office at No.6, Saket Community Centre, made a complaint to police station Saket on 18.9.2010 that the company which is engaged in the business of providing telecommunication services are maintaining three current Accounts with HDFC Bank Limited having its Branch at Qutab Enclave, DLF Phase1,Gurgaon and on the reconciliation and the perusal of statement of accounts for the month of August 2010, the company found that an approx. amount of Rs. 95 lacs have been debited unauthorized by different account holders. They further complained that 13 numbers of Companies Cheques had also been stolen by someone.

On this complaint a case of theft, cheating and forgery was registered at P.S. Saket vide FIR No. 264 dated 18.9.2010.

INVESTIGATION, ARREST & INTERROGATION:

A police team consisting of Insprs. Dharam Dev, Inspr. Ram Kumar, SI Prosun, HCs Billoo, Ajit, Praveen Consts. Bhupinder, Mumtyaj Ali & W/Ct. Lalita under the supervision of Inspr. Rajender Singh, SHO/P.S. Saket, and Sh. Mehar Singh, ACP/Hauz Khas investigated the case in detail. All the related Accounts were checked and perused. It was found that the cheated amount have been debited by the Fraudsters’ in 13 different accounts. The further enquiry revealed that all these cheques had been stolen from the office of the Company in Saket and later with the forged signatures of the authorized signatory of the company someone had allegedly withdrawn the cheated amount Rs. 95 lacs from various accounts in various banks in Delhi. The holders of beneficiary accounts were traced and interrogated and a few of them revealed that their accounts have been utilized for transaction purpose and a nominal commission or cut was also given in exchange of the use of their account. A few account holders were found missing and money fraudulently debited in their account was found to be withdrawn. These accounts were found to be related to a few individual and a few private Ltd. Companies namely Globe Marketing, SM Enterprises, Primvira mgmt. sol P. Ltd. Delhi Sales Corporation etc. Besides, these companies were found to be involved in using their account against the bogus bills raised/ incurred by the cheats involved in the racket and sometime converting black money into white. During further course of investigation it was revealed that all these accounts and persons were somehow related to one Manoj Pahwa, a C.A. having his Rohini based beneficiary company in the name of Manoj Pahwa and Associates. He was traced and interrogated. He broke down and disclosed that he had received three allegedly forged chechqes from one Varun Mital, a Meerut based aeronautical engineer. Manoj Pahwa was thereby arrested on 30.12.2010 and all the related forged papers were seized. Cash approx. Rs. 6.50 and some jewellery articles made out of cheated money were seized from his premises.

The team raided the premises of Varun Mittle and arrested him for playing an instrumental role in the whole cheating network. He disclosed that he had received all the checques from one Rahul Sharma, a Gurgaon based hotel management executive. He was thus arrested. He was reportedly employed in the complainant company as Account Executive. He took advantage and stole 13 loose checques from the office of Complainant Company in Saket and handed all these cheques to his acquaintance Varun Mital. Varun Mital took all these cheques to his collegue Amrita Kumari Sharma, an office executive and collegue of Varun Mittle in Shah Shiv Group of companies. She made the forged signatures of two authorized signatories of the complainant company on all the stolen checques. She also got debited around 20 lacs of cheated money in her own Account. She is still absconding. After obtaining forged signatures on all these stolen checqes, Varun Mital handed over these checqes to a few of his known account holders and a few checques were given to Manoj Pahwa, CA who further debited these forged checques through the accounts of his known clients. Varun Mittal has been arrested from Meerut and approx. one kilo gold which he had made out of cheated amount has since been recovered. One Nitin who had also received one such stolen and forged cheque and received Rs. One lac has also been arrested from Gaziabad and efforts are being made to effect recovery. All these persons have been arrested on 30.12.2010 and taken on police custody remand for 4 days.

PROFILE:

  1. Manoj Pahwa, aged 34 years, a Chartered Accountant by profession has played an instrumental role in getting all the stolen and forged checques encashed through his clients companies and himself got a substantial chunk of booty. He has got his own firm with the name and style “Manoj Pahwa and Associates”. He used his client companies namely S.M. Enterprises and Globe Marketing and credited their account with the tune of money of approx. Rs. 20 lacs by depositing two forged cheques in their account. One checque of amount Rs. 4.90 has fraudulently been credited in his own company namely Manoj Pahwa Associates. He has completed his C.A. from I.C.A.I, Delhi in 2001 and got MBA degree from Symbosis. He has got his office in Rohini. His wife is Principal in a reputed school in Delhi and his father is a Retd. Gazetted officer from Postal Department. His brother is a doctor. He has got a few foreign clients on his C.A. panel.
  2. Varun Mittle, aged 23 years. He has got his degree from Indian institute of Aeronautics, Punjabi Bagh in the year 2006 in Maintenance division. He has got his own Computer Institute in Meerut with around 25 computer operators his pay roll. His father is Retd. Administrator in a School.He has played an instrumental role in executing a plan of cheating and collected his acquaintances to execute his plan. Amrita Kumari Sharma, one of the accused persons has been his close acquaintance, friend and collegue through whom he got all the stolen checques forged. He is the mastermind of whole bank fraud.

3.Rahul Sharma, aged 33 years. He has done his Hotel Management Course IHM, Panipat in 1995 and served in various reputed five star hotels in Delhi and Dubai. He joined the complainant company last year as an Accountant Executive and deals in up keeping of cheques record in the company office. He stole 13 checques from the company office and handed over to Varun Mittle with the photo copy of sample signatures of both the authorized signatories of the company.

4.Nitin Sharma, aged 24 years, an acquaintance of Varun and Amrita Sharma got one forged checque credited in his Account and withdrew the money. He has passed out M.B.A. from Bangalore Management Academy in 2009. His father is retd. Asstt. Engineer in U.P. Govt.

Efforts are further being done to recover cheated amount. The proceeding of sealing of all the Accounts used for the transaction of cheated money is under process. The related documents, forged papers, forged Cheques etc. are being collected. Efforts are also being done to arrest the main conspirator Amrita Kumari Sharma. Raids are being conducted in UP and Punjab.

RECOVERY:

  1. Cash Rs. 6.48 lacs;
  2. One gold brick weighing approx. one Kg.;
  3. Ornaments made of cheated amount worth Rs. 2 lacs;
  4. Blank Cheques, forged Cheques, documents related to the case have been seized.

(H.G.S.DHALIWAL)

Dy. Commissioner of Police

South District: New Delhi

PRESS RELEASE

DATED: 01.01.11

SENSATIONAL CASE OF KIDNAPPING FOR RANSOM OF VIVEK VIHAR SOLVED, KIDNAPPED TEENAGER WAS BRUTALLY MURDERED, THREE ACCUSED ARRESTED & DEAD BODY RECOVERED

Special Staff of East Distt. along with local police of PS Vivek Vihar has solved the sensational Kidnapping for Ransom case in which a kid of 14 years was kidnapped from Jhilmil Colony, Vivek Vihar, Delhi on 15.12.10 and brutally murdered on the same day. The arrested three accused persons are:

1.Anil Kumar Sharma @ Shetty s/o Tulsi Ram r/o Gali No.7,Prem Nagar, Near Transformer ,Karawal Nagar,Delhi Age-42 Yrs

2. Manish Sharma @ Pappan s/o Raghunandam Sharma r/o A-186 ,Gali No. 3,Rama Nagar ,Karawal Nagar, Delhi, Age-23 Yrs

3. Nikhil @ Sumit s/o Ram Bharose r/o19A, Gali No.4, Amar Vihar, Karawal Nagar, Delhi.

INCIDENT

On 15.12.10 Dharam Singh, resident of D-45, Jhilmil Colony, Delhi had reported to the Vivek VIhar Police Station, Delhi that his 14 year old son Vikas @ Golu had been missing since evening. A case of kidnapping was registered vide FIR No. 288/10 363 IPC dated 16.12.10 and investigation was taken up. For eight days no clue of Vikas @ Golu was found and efforts were being made to trace the child. In the meantime on 23.12.10 a call for ransom was made on the cell phone of the complainant and the caller demanded 15 lakh rupees as ransom money for the safe release of the child. The case took a serious turn and teams swung into action .

TEAM

Taking into the gravity of the case a team comprising SI Vinay Yadav, SI Satendra Khari, SI Amarjeet, ASI Satpal Singh, ASI Manoj, ASI Desh Raj, HC Nazir, HC Sirmohar, HC Virender, HC Swadesh Rana, HC Manoj, HC Birjender, Ct. Jitender, Ct Roop Singh, Ct Sunil, Ct. Praveen, Ct. Shatrughan, Ct. Yashpal Singh, Ct Harender, Ct. Tehzib, Ct. Lokendra, Ct. Vikrant, Ct. Dharamvir and Ct. Munesh was constituted under the close supervision of Insp. Rakesh Dixit I/C Spl. Staff/East and Insp. Yogesh Malhotra, Addl. SHO P.S. Vivek Vihar, Delhi East and efforts were made to rescue the child safely from the kidnappers .

INESTIGATION

A massive hunt was launched to ascertain the whereabouts of the kidnapped child, several teams from the above mentioned staff were formed to conduct raids, to verify the possible suspects and to investigate into all aspects of the crime. During the investigation again ransom calls were made from various Public Calling Booths of Loni, Kallupura Ghaziabad and Karawal Nagar, Delhi. All the PCOs in the area from where the calls made, were covered by the teams as the area was circumscribed after studying the pattern of the calls based on the location of those PCOs. In the meantime efforts were being made to ascertain the involvement of any close relative/acquaintance of the complainant or any other person who might have any sort of enmity with the complainant or otherwise. Every possible effort were made by deploying the local sources and it came to notice that the complainant was in the habit of betting and sometimes had altercations with the other players. In one such instance he quarreled with one Anil Kumar Sharma @ Shetty and did not pay him the money he won in the betting. Surveillance was kept on the movement of Shetty, who earlier used to live in Jhilmil Colony, Delhi and later shifted to Karawal Nagar. After painstaking efforts and through surveillance the team came to know his possible involvement in the kidnapping. In the early hours of 01.01.11, Shetty along with his associates Manish and Nikhil were apprehended from Karawal Nagar, Delhi. During the course of interrogation Shetty confessed to have kidnapped the child with the help of his associates and murdered him on the very same day of kidnapping as the child knew Shetty and Shetty had the apprehension that his identity might be disclosed if the child escapes. At the instance of all three accused, half burnt body of the child was recovered from a room near his house, where transformers were kept by BSES and which remains secluded.

INTERROGATION

On sustained interrogation, Anil Kumar Sharma @ Shetty disclosed that he used to work with the Reserve Bank of India as a fourth class employee but could not be enrolled as permanent employee and later had to leave the job. After this, he was in acute financial crisis which led him to fall into bad company of gamblers. But he could not earn his livelihood from the same due which he had to leave his paternal home situated in Jhilmil Colony, Delhi. Owing to the differences that arose during such gambling with Dharam Singh and since he also knew that he had only one son, he hatched a plan to kidnap the child with the help of his associates. As per the plan Shetty kept strict surveillance over the movement of the child and since the child knew Shetty, he easily lured him in the pretext of taking him to get him some snacks and took him along to his residence at Karawal Nagar, Delhi on 15.12.10 where his associates also joined. As per the plan they smothered the child on that very day as he could have disclosed their identity to the Police and then took his body to a room near the house where transformers were kept and torched his body with help of oil used in the transformers and buried his body there with building material .Since the street where Shetty lives is not so much populated and the room of BSES remains unattended for months, no one could have detected what was going on in the room .Then they kept strict surveillance on the movement of the complainant as what he was actually doing in the search of his child. After eight days of the kidnapping and murder of the child, Shetty and his associates started calling the complainant for ransom from different PCOs of NCR and Delhi .

PROFILE:

1. Anil Kumar Sharma @ Shetty s/o Tulsi Ram r/o Gali No. 7,Prem Nagar, Nr. Transformer, Karawal Nagar, Delhi Age-42 Yrs, married and unemployed.

2. Manish Sharma @ Pappan s/o Raghunandam Sharma r/o A-186 ,Gali No. 3, Rama Nagar, Karawal Nagar, Delhi, Age-23 Yrs, unmarried and unemployed.

3. Nikhil @ Sumit s/o Ram Bharose r/o 19A, Gali No. 4, Amar Vihar, Karawal Nagar, Delhi, aged 18 years student.

The Special Staff police team of East Delhi which has done a commendable job in working out this sensational case is being suitably rewarded.

[I.B. RANI]

DY. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE:

EAST DISTT, DELHI

DATED 01.01.2011

PRESS RELEASE CENTRAL DISTRICT

NOTORIOUS GANG INVOLVED IN DISMANTLING OF STOLEN CARS BUSTED : ONE STOLEN CAR & FOUR ENGINES RECOVERED

With the arrest of (1) Gufran aged 43 years s/o Abdul Salam r/o Suiwalan, Chandni Mahal, Delhi; (2) Mohd. Mazid aged 20 years s/o Mohd. Siraz r/o Ballimaran, Delhi and (3) Rizwan aged 23 years s/o Ikramuddin r/o Suiwalan, Chandni Mahal, Delhi, the AATS Staff of Central District has busted a notorious gang involved in dismantling of stolen vehicles. One stolen Verna Car and four engines of stolen cars have been recovered from their possession.

INCIDENT AND THE TEAM

Due to the increasing incidents of motor vehicle thefts in the area, a dedicated team comprising of Inspr. Om Prakash Pawar I/C AATS/Central, SI Balram, ASI Suresh Kr. Srivastava, HC Sushil, Ct. Narender and Ct. Parveen was formed under the supervision of Shri N.S .Ghumman, ACP/Operations/Central District. Sources were deployed to collect intelligence about the activities of active auto-lifters and receivers of stolen vehicles. On 31.12.10, a secret information was received by Inspr. Om Prakash Pawar that some persons who are actively involved in dismantling of stolen cars and selling of their parts are present at Chhatta Sheikh Maglu, behind Delite Cinema. The police team immediately rushed to the spot and at the instance of informer, three persons were apprehended while they were engaged in dismantling of a Varna car in an open garage. On verification, it was learnt that the car has been stolen from the area of PS Shalimar Bagh and a case vide FIR No. 238/10 has been registered. Consequently, they were booked u/s 41.1/102 Cr. PC.