Seven arrested, cheating, forgery racket busted
First Ashish, Solanki's employee was arrested and during interrogation, he accepted the theft of the cheque.
New Delhi: The Delhi police busted a nationwide cheating and forgery racket and arrested seven persons in this regard. The police also seized images of cheques worth approximately Rs 2.6 crore.
The police said that complainant Vikas Solanki reported that an amount of Rs 10.5 lakhs was debited from his account and transferred to the account of Landmark Construction company, Kolkata without his knowledge and a case was registered on December 30 last.
During probe, it was found that a cheque was stolen from Solanki’s office and same was presented in Kolkata. First Ashish, Solanki’s employee was arrested and during interrogation, he accepted the theft of the cheque.
Ashish added said he passed the cheque to his friend Deepak, who said that he had sent the cheque his friend Rishikesh in Jharkhand. The team reached Bihar, Jharkhand including Hazaribagh and arrested Rishikesh from Bihar. His arrest led to the arrest of Probal Sen Gupta, Satinder Sharma, and Biplob Das. Also, some bank and telecom employees were also party to this crime syndicate.