6 held for cheating fruit trader of Rs 8.5 lakh

Six pesons were arrested for allegedly cheating a fruit trader of R s 8.5 lakh here, police said today.
The arrested have been identified as Sohan Pal Sharma, Prabhat Sagar, Kapil Narula, Vikash Gupta, Nitin and Santosh Kumar. Police have recovered Rs 4.60 lakh out of the cheated amount out of Rs 8.50 lakh.
The arrests came following investigations into a complaint filed by Shyam Lal Arora, the businessman, on April three that he received a message on his mobile phone regarding withdrawal of Rs. 8.5 lakh by a self-paid cheque from the company account.
The money was encashed at ICICI Bank Gwalior Branch in Madhya Pradesh.

"The ICICI branch in Azadpur here informed that they despatched it to Arora through courier but he claimed he did not receive it. The working system of courier company for delivery of cheque book and the accesses of the employees for doing pilferage was checked.
"The needle of suspicion pointed towards the involvement of the staff of the courier company but there was no specific input to fix their criminal liability," P Karunakaran, Deputy Commissioner of Police (North-West), said.

During investigation, police checked the CCTV footage of ICICI branch in Gwalior and on the basis of CCTV footage, the person, who had withdrawn the money after submitting forged and fabricated cheque, was identified as Sohan Pal Sharma," Karunakaran said.

Sohan Pal was the first to arrested on April 16 followed by others.
"Nitin was an employee of the SMS courier company. He stole the cheque book of ICICI Bank that was to be delivered to Arora. Nitin gave the cheque book to Santosh and he passed on the same to Vikas," he said.