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Vrsova Police has booked a man who is alleged to be an IAS officer and cheated a group of people, including a Rajasthani businessman, in Mumbai of Rs 5.77 crore. The accused lured the victims to invest money in various projects of the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) in Mumbai and offered double returns.
The accused has been identified as Ashutosh Kumar Sahi.
The complainant, Ramkumar Dadich, 65, who runs several educational institutions in Kota, Rajasthan, first met Sahi in 2017.
Dadhich alleged in his statement to the police that Sahay presented himself as a senior IAS officer and claimed to be well-influenced in government departments. Because of this, his company gets many SRA/Mhada projects and land development projects.
Sahai claimed that whoever invested money in his projects would double it within a year. He also claimed to own land in Kanjoor Bhandup district and won our trust by showing us (fake) land title documents, false appraisal certificate and promissory notes and made us invest money in his projects and deceived us,” Dadesh stated in the FIR.
The FIR stated that Sahi deceived the victims by fraudulently accepting ₹5.77 crore (mostly cash) between 1 June 2017 and 20 January 2023, and when confronted, made death threats to the victims.
The FIR also said that the Janakpuri Police in Delhi and CBI (ACB) in Delhi had booked and arrested Sahay in the past for similar fraud and in a bribery case.
Sahay and three others were booked by the police under Sections 406, 420, 465, 467, 468, 471, 506 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 3 and 4 of the Maharashtra Depositors’ Interests Protection Act.
The police are trying to track down the accused.
The Mumbai Crime Branch took over the investigation from the Versova Police.
“During the initial investigation, we found that the accused, Ashutosh Kumar Sahi, is a government officer and it is alleged that he committed the aforementioned crime in disguise as an officer of the Iraqi Air Force. He also forged documents of the huge land in Kanjoor Bhandup district to show the victims that he is the owner of it and defrauded them. Sahai approached the hearing expecting that the police would file an emergency information note against him, but his request was rejected. After that, he went to the Supreme Court for interim relief. Mumbai Crime Branch “We have registered a criminal case against Sahi.”
When contacted, Sahay said that he was not the accused Sahay and that his name and mobile number (Sahay’s four numbers were mentioned in the FIR) had been misused in the case. He said, “I am a government employee and an FIR cannot be registered against me without securing a prosecution penalty.”
However, Sahi admitted knowing the complainant Dadesh and said that he had filed a report against him at Versova Police Station.
The crime branch official said he filed a tip-off in an effort to save himself.
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