The Town police have brought one of the kingpins of an inter-State gang, Y Naresh Kumar, here from Mysore. The gang had duped number of people of crores of rupees in various States and produced them in the SDJM Court here on Monday.
The police have requested the court to take him on a five-day remand for further interrogation.
Sources said the gang that was busted by the Mysore City Crime Branch was active in Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Punjab, Rajasthan and Karnataka, was run by a father and son duo of Venkatramana and Naresh of Rajmahendri. The gang was active in Cuttack, Khordha, Balugaon and Brahmapur of the State.
Sources said Venkat in 2009, opened a firm Super Six Products limited in Mysore and started supplying food products. In the initial phase, they supplied some food products and took advance from different parties. In October, 2015 Naresh took Rs 16 lakh from a businessman Rakesh Prusty of Niladri Vihar under the Town PS but didn’t supply the goods.
later, Rakesh lodged a complaint with the police on July 16, 2016. In another incident, the duo took a huge amount of money from a Balugaon-based businessman Chandan Panda. However, he lodged a complaint with the Mysore Crime Branch, which investigated the case and arrested Venkat on January 24. It has been ascertained that 34 cases are pending against the father, son duo in different States. Venkat is presently cooling his heel behind bars in a Rajasthan jail. It has been found that he is the owner of two luxury cars. Naresh was arrested by the Mysore CB sleuths on February 8, 2017 and forwarded to court.