Source :TOI:May 30, 2011, 07.17am IST
AHMEDABAD: The only police officer who can do Bollywood jhatkas and still look good is Chulbul Pandey, a la Dabangg.
But looking good was the last thing on the minds of Navrangpura police station officers as they sang and danced with revellers at a wedding on SG Road recently. And the effort paid off — it helped them nab a financial fraudster, absconding since March 2010.
Narendra Chaudhary, 45, accused in a Rs 3.35 crore cheating case, had managed to evade the police for a long time.
But police officials knew he could not avoid his daughter's wedding and would turn up for the kanyadaan.
A team of police personnel mingled with the revellers as the bridegroom's friends on Friday evening and waited patiently.
At around 1 am, officials started losing hope, when the man came in a hurry for the kanyadaan and tried to leave in just 10 minutes.
"We did not want to make a scene at the wedding venue. So, our men followed him out and nabbed him just as he was getting into a car. He looked bewildered at first but soon realised he had been trapped," said PM Sarvaiya, inspector of Navrangpura police station.
Chaudhary had allegedly posed as a proprietor of an import-export firm and deposited a cheque of Rs 3,35,67,100 with Bank of India in March 2010.
The cheque was written by Glenmark Generics Ltd, a Mumbaibased firm. After the cheque got cleared, the bank got a notice from Glenmark stating they never wrote the cheque.
Police officers said Chaudhary manipulated the original amount of Rs 67,100 to dupe the bank. It was later revealed that the directors who had signed the cheque were authorized to clear transactions below Rs 3 crore.
By the time the fraud came to light, Chaudhary had escaped with Rs 2.10 crore.
Scamsters used banking loophole to get the money
Narendra Chaudhry made an exact replica of a cheque leaf belonging to a Mumbai based multinational firm, filled in his desired withdrawal sum of Rs 3.5 crore, got it cleared at a public sector bank and had the money credited to his account on the same day.
The cheque belonged to a Mumbai based multinational pharmaceutical firm, with signatures of two top executives. The original cheque had a withdrawal sum of just Rs 67,100 !
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