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Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 23 (IANS) The CBI has registered a case against two people from Kerala and two state policemen for duping a woman investor in the guise of giving her an automobile dealership and subsequently destroying evidence in the case. An official gave this information on Thursday.
The First Information Report (FIR) was lodged by the CBI under the supervision of Divya Sara Thomas, HOB, Special Crime Branch, Thiruvananthapuram, on Wednesday, on the directions of the Kerala High Court, after being approached by complainant Jyolasana Binu, a resident of Karakkad village, Chengannur, Alappuzha.
Binu alleged that Pathanamthitta residents Soni P Bhaskar and MK Varadarajan defrauded her and her husband of Rs 27.5 lakh.
The CBI FIR states that Binu complained that accused Bhaskar and Varadarajan led him to believe that they were the manager and legal advisor respectively of a partnership firm named ESSEN Bankers.
She alleged that the duo collected a total amount of Rs 27.5 lakh from her on different occasions between 2003 and 2007, with the offer that she would be provided a dealership in a proposed automobile business to be started by her by appointing her husband as the managing director.
The complainant alleged that the duo thereafter cheated him without fulfilling the above assurance or returning the amount collected from him. The complainant stated that the above amount was paid through two checks of Rs 3.50 lakh and Rs 20.50 lakh in cash.
The CBI FIR states that during the investigation of the offense under section 201 of the IPC – causing disappearance of evidence of an offence, or giving false information to screen offender – the involvement of A Abhilash, Detective Inspector and Krishnakumar, Detective Sub Inspector came to light.
“Accordingly, the offense under section 201 of the IPC was added and A Abhilash, Detective Inspector and Krishnakumar, Detective Sub Inspector were added as accused,” said the CBI FIR registered under penal provisions of cheating, criminal act committed with common intention, causing disappearance of evidence of offence.
“The FIR is being sent to the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Thiruvananthapuram,” said the CBI FIR signed by Divya Sara Thomas, IPS, Superintendent of Police, CBI.
Earlier, in a petition before the High Court, the complainant had alleged that the State Police investigators made misleading statements regarding the recovery of two check leaves from the State Bank of Travancore, Chengannur, and also failed to produce the said check leaves before the concerned court.
The petitioner claimed that his inquiries revealed that the above check leaves “seized” by the State Police investigators were missing.
Suspecting that the above cheques, which were important pieces of evidence, were deliberately destroyed to protect the culprits, the petitioner made a detailed representation against the two investigators of Kerala Police.
–IANS
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