2 arrested in connection with forgery of Rs 1.75 cr
   Date :09-May-2019

 
The Hitavada State Bureau:
 
SURGUJA/RAIPUR
 
Surguja police on Wednesday arrested two tricksters, who fraudulently managed to avail compensation to the tune of around Rs 1.75 crore from South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) through forged documents. According to police sources, the arrested were identified as Arvind Beck (20) and Wahid Hussain (27), both hailing from Surajpur district. With the help of fake Aadhaar card and other forged documents, Arvind by introducing him as one of the beneficiaries identified as Kamal Sai in documents, managed to get Rs 1.75 crore deposited in his fake bank account (maintained with Canara Bank in Surguja) as compensation from SECL.
 
The crime came to light when manager of Canara Bank (PG College branch) raise suspicion over the massive transaction and alerted Superintendent of Police (SP) Sadanand Kumar following which investigation started, said police sources. Police sources further informed that as a part of investigation, investigators in civil dress were deployed near the bank arrested the accused when he turned up to withdraw the money.
 
On being subjected to interrogation, the accused admitted of committing the forgery by posing him as one of the beneficiaries through forged documents. Moreover, the admitted of procuring forged documents from Wahid Hussain. During interrogation, the accused told police investigation that in 2017, he visited Bilaspur with his friend for disposal of compensation related case where he found the list of 56 beneficiaries, who were yet to get the compensation. After getting the list, the accused with the help of Wahid Hussain prepared forged documents in names of Kamal Sai.
 
Police have produced the accused duo in a court from where they were sent to judicial custody, added police. An offence in this connection was registered with Gandhi Nagar police station under Sections 120B, 420, 467, 468 and 471, which amounting to punishment of criminal conspiracy; cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property; forgery of valuable security, will, etc; forgery for purpose of cheating and using as genuine a forged.