Cooperative fraud is directly related to the confidence of masses and to investigate and bring justice is a social work, said DGP Surendra Sinh at the inauguration of a three-day seminar of Inspectors and Sub-Inspectors on ‘State level Cooperative Fraud’ at PTRI on Wednesday.
The investigation of Cooperative fraud is simple and straight in comparison to investigation of other criminal cases. The number of victims reporting fraud in the public hearing is big.
For investigation, an outline should be prepared and three important points should be remembered- first is good knowledge of law, second the process used to cheat and third and the most important thing is patience.
Help of experts of society and banking in cased of frauds in banking and societies could be taken. The whole investigation is based on documents and they never lie.
ADG Puroshattam Sharma said that till March 2015, 125 cases of cooperative fraud were pending but with due diligence 50 percent of the cases have been resolved.
Special DG Maria Kumar said that the aim of the seminar is to increase awareness among police as these kinds of fraud impact the economy. The criminals are aware of the high tech frauds and to catch them the capabilities of the police have to be made upto the mark.
In the year 2015 around 125 cases were pending and 67 out of the 125 cases were pending for more than 2 years and to address the pending cases review meetings were held and the number has been reduced to 33 cases from 67.