EOW of Delhi Police Arrested Absconder of Luring Money from People
EOW Delhi Police has arrested Satnam
singh S/o Piyara Singh R/o H.No 315, Fatullahpur, Kharar, Mohalli PB who was
declared absconder, in case Fir No 218/08, U/S 406/420/34 IPC re 3,4,5,6 PCMC
Act PS EOW.
The accused floated a company in the
name of NGP Pvt. Ltd. and lured innocent people into investing in a fake scheme
promising handsome return on their investment in short period. To bring in more
people in his trap, he initially gave gifts to the depositors and offered
handsome incentives to agents who brought deposits from the individuals. The
accused used every trick of the trade i.e. organizing domestic as well as
foreign tours for the agents to induce them to rope in more depositors and grew
the company on the principal of multi level marketing scheme. He targeted
thousands of small depositors by offering schemes with small initial deposit of
Rs 300, Rs 1500, and Rs 12000 and within a small period of six seven months
(Feb 2008 to Aug 2008), the company collected more than Rs1.5 Crores from
hundreds of victims. After the lapse of the maturity period when depositors
started demanding their returns, the accused closed the company office and went
underground and had been hiding since several years without returning the hard
earned money of thousands of investors.
A team was formed under SI Rakesh Yadav under overall
supervision of ACP Sh. Rajiv Midha for arresting the accused. A drive was
launched for his arrest as he was avoiding arrest since several years. On
technical surveillance and ground intelligence, it was revealed that the
accused had been residing somewhere around Chandigarh. Further enquiries
revealed that he has been operating a bank account in Axis bank, Chandigarh
which ultimately led to his hideout and subsequent arrest.
On
Interrogation Accused Satnam Singh revealed that after closing the offices at
Delhi he had taken refuge in Mohali (Punjab), as many people were chasing him for the refund of their money. Accused
had purchased a flat from the victim’s money which was sold later. After he
left for Punjab, his brother in law Jasbir Singh another, Director, managed the
affairs of the company, who is also now absconding.
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