The Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) has arrested a woman Monika Kapoor from Delhi, who was wanted in five districts and had 15 cases registered in seven districts of the State in connection with financial fraud. She was the mastermind of the gang that duped thousands of people of crores of rupees in the past eight years, said the senior superintendent of police Ayush Agrawal. He said that Kapoor was the director of a company named Janshakti Multi State Multi Purpose Co-operative Society Limited whose headquarter was in Delhi. She formed the company along with her colleagues and set up many offices in different subdivisions of different districts of the State in 2015. “The company employed educated and unemployed youths of respective areas to ensure maximum locals invest in their company. Several people deposited money in the company in the name of opening saving accounts, RDs and FDs. The company also paid people interest in the initial years but after they accumulated huge amounts and the period of most of the RDs and FDs was going to end, they fled with the money in 2021,” said Agrawal. The company possibly duped people of various districts of about Rs 40 to 50 crore since 2015 including about Rs 16 crore from Uttarkashi, Rs 13 crore from Dehradun, Rs six crore in Chamoli and Rs 1.25 crore in Tehri. The police had earlier arrested three accused in this case.
