Three held for Rs.18 lakh fraud
March 18th, 2011 - 12:36 am ICT by IANSNew Delhi, March 17 (IANS) Delhi Police have apprehended three people in west Delhi for stealing blank cheques from a company and then withdrawing around Rs.18 lakh from its bank account, police said Thursday.
“Rajneesh Dutta, Karan Jain and Gaurav Chopra, all in their 20s, were apprehended from Naraina in west Delhi March 15,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (southwest) Anil Kumar Ojha.
Police received a complaint from Planman Consultancy India Pvt Ltd March 13 that Rs.18 lakh was siphoned off through stolen blank cheques between November 2010 to March 2011, using forged signatures.
During investigation police found that the maximum number of cheques which were used to transfer the company’s money were deposited in the account of Deepak Narayan, a resident of Mangolpuri in west Delhi.
Deepak told police that he is a poor labourer working in a factory located in Kirti Nagar. “Upon interrogation of Deepak told that Karan Jain and Gaurav Chopra had once offered to get a bank account opened. Following which, the duo were questioned and apprehended,” said Ojha.
They also told that they got cheques from Rajneesh Dutta, an MBA was working as accountant in the company. Following this Dutta was apprehended.
“Approximately Rs.15 lakh of the company was transferred to Deepka Narayan’s account and Rs.2.93 lakh to that of Gaurav Chopra,” said Ojha.
After transferring the money the culprits used to withdraw the money using ATM card issued in the name of Deepak, police said.
Karan Jain and Gaurav Chopra did their graduation from Delhi University and were working as sales executives in a private firm.
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