On-line gaming fraudster Ananth alias Sontu Navratan Jain, who has been on the run for almost three months, continues to confound the police even after being taken into custody. It has been revealed that Sontu spent 14 hours of his initial 24 hours in the police custody lockup sleeping, which raised questions about the progress of the ongoing investigation. A police official said that after being remanded to police custody by the court on Monday, Sontu was taken to the Crime Branch office at Gittikhadan in the evening. He gave vague responses to the investigators during a two-and-a-half-hour interrogation. Later, he was kept in the Sadar Police Station’s lockup at 9.30 pm and taken out the next day at 11.30 am.

 

He was sleeping for almost 14 hours in the lockup without any interrogation. Later, he was taken to the Crime Branch for interrogation after spending an hour bathing, the official claimed. Sources claimed that Sontu was not responding to the questions of investigators and trying to divert the attention of inquiry officers to other issues including fan speed, drinking water, food and clothes. A senior police official claimed that the interrogation points are lined up to uncover the entire on-line gaming network operated by Sontu for the past several years. There are so many beneficiaries of Sontu’s fraudulent network including Rakesh Rajkot alias RR who is now hiding in the United Kingdom and Naim alias Naved, a D-gang member. RR and Naim are the major beneficiaries as RR introduced him to the gaming world while Naved gave shelter in Dubai by using his extensive D-gang network.