Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, Dec 19: Samba Police has unearthed a fake company and arrested Harpreet Singh and his brother Jarnail Singh the so called owners of the company and recovered Rs 4,07,000 from their possession out of Rs 8,75,039 which they have fraudulently got transferred in the account of the company.
According to police spokesman, a police party of Bari Brahmana Police Station headed by Inspector Arun Jamwal SHO P/S Bari Brahmana under the supervision of Anil Magotra, SSP Samba, has unearthed a fake company under the name and style M/s Rainbow Plastics, Katiyal R S Pura in whose account a cheque of Rs 8,75,039 was fraudulently got transferred which was issued by the M/s Glow Tech Industries, Bari Brahmna from its Head Office, Delhi on the name of M/s Rainbow Plastics Gangyal.
The spokesman said after the M/s Rainbow Plastics Gangyal took up the issue with M/s Glow Tech Industries Bari Brahmana that the amount due form the company was delayed and the payment was not received by it till date, it was informed by the management of the company that a payment of Rs 8,75,039 was sent through a cheque from its Head Office, Delhi since.
After coming to know that the cheque has not been deposited in the account of the company while the money has been withdrawn also, M/s Glow Tech Industries Bari Brahamana lodged a complaint of fraud at P/S Bari Brahamana in which it was mentioned that the cheque amounting to Rs 8,75,039 issued from their Head office at Delhi in favour of M/s Rainbow Plastics Ltd at Gangyal has been fraudulently withdrawn by some miscreants.
On the basis of complaint the Police lodged a FiR No 114/2013 u/s 419/420/467/468/471/120-B RPC and started investigation.
Police spokesman said that during the investigation, CCTV footage of the ATMs from where the accused persons withdrew the amount were obtained and photographs of the accused persons were circulated to affect their arrest.
On the basis of this one of the accused was identified as Harpreet Singh, S/o Amreek Singh of Simbal Morh, R S Pura. He was later arrested. During the questioning, he disclosed the names of mastermind of this fraud as Sheetal Singh, S/o Darshan Singh of Ratin R S Pura, spokesman added.
He said later Sheetal Singh was also arrested and put on sustained interrogation during which he disclosed that he was an ex employee of HDFC Bank and he along with his friend Ankush Sharma, S/o Chaman Lal Sharma of Ratin R S Pura hatched a conspiracy to fraudulently transfer huge amount of industrial companies being received by them in the shape of cheques dispatched through courier companies in their accounts, spokesman added.
He said acting on this plan, firstly Sheetal Singh managed job of his friend Ankush in the Over Night Express Courier Company Jewel Chowk, Jammu by posing Ankush as Vijay Kumar after arranging fake documents on his name. Thereafter, they started search of cheques of industrial companies and succeeded in getting one of the cheque amounting to Rs 8,75,039 issued from the Head Office of M/s Glow Tech Industries at Delhi in favour of M/s Rainbow Plastics Ltd at Gangyal. The cheque was dispatched on September 6 this year and was likely to be delivered to the company on September 7.
After getting the cheque Ankush deserted the courier company at Jewel, police said, adding thereafter Sheetal Singh with a view to deposit the cheque in their favour and withdraw the amount induced his another friend Harpreet Singh, son of Amreek Singh of Simbal Morh, R S Pura and managed to open a fresh account on the name and style of M/s Rainbow Plastics, Katiyal (R S Pura) in Central Bank of India R S Pura by posing his name as Gurdeep Singh of Katiyal R S Pura on the basis of fake driving license, Pan Card and Ration Card got from Sonu computers, Apsara road Gandhi Nagar Jammu.
After opening the account in Central Bank of India at R S Pura they deposited the cheque in the account of the fake company, spokesman said, adding but they did not operate the account till they received ATM card and cheque book from the Bank on November 11 and from November 13 to November 20 they managed to withdraw Rs 8,13,000 from the account by using the cheque book and ATM card and distributed the amount among themselves.
The Police has also arrested Ankush Sharma has also seized the M/s Sonu Computers, Apsara Road Gandhi Nagar Jammu and it is on the job to recover the remaining amount also.
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