Gurugram: familiarity with the banking system and access to the main information helps Conman Praveen Mittal carry out a series of banking fraud in three different states, including the withdrawal of almost Rs 1.4 Crore from a farmer in Gurugram who has received compensation from the government for land acquisition.
The police investigated the role of several bank officials in this case.
Until a week ago, the police did not understand the real 48-year-old identity and only had CCTV recordings from the bank branch where farmers had their accounts, which they collected in 2019.
To accelerate investigations, Gurugram police recently formed a special investigation team (sitting ) Under the ACP Karan Goel to track the defendant and announce the RS 5 Lakh prize at Mittal’s head.
According to the police, Mittal is part of a gang that might have implemented some banking fraud as big as crores in Haryana, Rajasthan and above.
Six men suspected of gang members were arrested last month – residents of Delhi Sanjeev Yadav, Singh Day, Hitesh Goyal, Amit Chandana, Prem Kumar and Sachin Gupta.
However, none of them realized Mittal’s original identity, said a police officer, added that they were involved in removing a SIM card without the required documents, which were used for fraud.
After hitting the road barrier in the probe, Sit exchanged lanes and began examining prison records in various countries to track people who had committed similar crimes.
They found that Mittal has been filed in Jail Faridabad last year for banking fraud and then released with a guarantee.
“He jumped.
We managed to track his location to Delhi and he was arrested on Thursday,” said ACP (DLF) Karan Goel.
Mittal told the police that he had easy access to the bank as a loan agent.
In 2018, he managed to put his hand on a check released by Ram Leela (65) in Gurugram.
The account number, name and cellphone number are mentioned on the back of the check.
Using a cellphone number, Mittal managed to get the personal details of RAM.
“He got a fake aadhaar and pan cards made.
Posing as a farmer in the national branch of the National Bank where RAM has his account, he gets a cellphone number that is linked to the account that is changed,” said Inspector Anand Yadav, responsible for the Sector Crime Unit 31 , say.
“Because the account has a daily withdrawal of Rs 40,000 on one ATM card, it gets seven cards issued and attracted around Rs 3 Lakh in a day using it,” Anand said.
A fired fired against unknown people after fraud was revealed in 2019 (Mittal has not been identified as the defendant at that time).
Police recently began investigating the role of bank officials in crime.
“Mobile number RAM is changed by officials without proper verification and the role of assistant managers and branch managers being investigated,” said ACP Goel.
Bank officials approached the Gurugram court who was seeking anticipatory guarantees, but their requests were rejected.
They then approached the Punjab High Court and Haryana earlier this month.
While hearing their request on August 16, Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi from the High Court directed the Bank’s General Manager to appear before the court directly on August 23 and explained what actions had been carried out by officials for negligence.