Lucknow: Wing Wing Wing (EOW) from the Uttar Pradesh Police has managed to secure the extradition of the Delhi Fugitive pair – booked for Dupming Bank, Farmers, and RS 1,000 Crore companies – from London – from London.
Previously, EOW received a red angle notice issued by Interpol against the couple after both of them were arrested in London in October 2019.
Dg, EOW, RK Vishwakarma, said VIR Karan Awasthi (49), a resident of Vasant Vihar, Delhi, has been ordered on complaints of companies in Bulandshahr, accused them of Rs 1.76 Crore by buying rice and escaping without payment.
Vishwakarma said the couple had also donated banks and farmers Rs 800 Crore.
“This might be the first case when the state body has secured extradition,” he added.
SP, EOW, Swapnil Mamgain said Lokendra Singh, owner of Saurabh & Co., a company in Bulandshahr, has submitted a case against VIR Karan and Rehika, bush food owners abroad Pvt.
Ltd., on September 11, 2015, after the state government that submitted an investigation for EOW in March 2016.
Singh complained that Awasthis bought rice worth Rs 1.76 Crore for exports from his company but did not pay dime.
Awasthis was ordered for cheating, criminal violations of trust, valuable security forgery, using original documents as false and criminal intimidation.
“During the investigation, we found that export fraud was only the tip of the iceberg.
Total fraud is worth more than Rs 1,000 Crore.
VIr Karan escaped to London as soon as he was named in FIR, while relessness lived in his arrest, but the High Court of Allahabad on October 20, 2015 , told him not to leave the country, “said Mamgain.
On December 11, 2015, he challenged orders at the Supreme Court.
“He received help from SC for a three-month trip to London for medical care for Rs 86 Lakh bonds and had to return on March 31, 2016,” said Mamgain.
The APEX court then gave him a two-month stay.
When he did not return on May 31, 2016, the Supreme Court ordered the cancellation of his passport.
On December 16, he ordered the seizure of the 86 lakh RS deposit and an extradition process initiation.
Meanwhile, in October 2017, Eow finished the question and submitted a chargesheet against the couple.
Then, he pursued a case with the CBI and Interpol and received a red angle notice issued.
“Some cases have been submitted against Bush food in various countries.
A former city council member in Delhi has written to PM, accuses the company’s cheating 1,000 farmers in Haryana, Uttarakhand and over RS 110 other crores,” the official said.
Then, EOW moved the Westminster court through the UNI Ministry for Deportation of VIR Karan and Reetics.
Orders for extradition from England have been accepted, said Mamgain.