Madhya Pradesh Police has arrested the brother of Haryana Independent MLA Balraj Kundu from the Sector 50 area of Gurugram on a charge of cheating a Jhajjar-based building contractor, Gurugram police said on Tuesday.
Police arrested Shivraj Kundu, a resident of Rohtak’s Meham constituency, late Monday night, they said.
“Madhya Pradesh police arrested Shivraj Kundu, one of the accused, in a case of cheating from Sector 50 Police Station area on Monday night,” said Virender Vij, DCP, East.
A case of cheating was registered against MLA Balraj Kundu, his brother Shivraj Kundu and V K Lamba at Moti Nagar Police Station, Sagar in Madhya Pradesh in 2021.
It has been alleged that the three had contracted a Jhajjar-based firm to construct a road in Madhya Pradesh but refused to pay the dues to him.
When the contractor asked for money, the accused allegedly threatened to kill him.
Kundu was arrested on the basis of a complaint filed by Dharamveer, the owner of Balaji Construction, which was contracted to construct the road in Bhopal.
According to the FIR, Dharamveer had met Rohit Sharma, a project manager of Parivartan Buildcon Company, in 2015, when he was in Gwalior city working on some farm work.
In 2018, Rohit came to meet him in Jhajjar and told him he had got some building work from KCC Buildcon company. Around six months later, he roped in Dharamveer to supply the material for the project.
“Rohit took me to the office of KCC Buildcon located in the Sector 50 Police Station area and introduced me to the director MLA Balraj Kundu, his brother Shivraj Kundu and V K Lamba.
“They asked me to build a road from JC Nagar to Sagar in Bhopal. The entire project cost around `7 crore and I was asked to set up the plant in Madhya Pradesh and was promised a payment every month,” Dharmaveer said in his complaint, according to the police.
He said that after he set up the plant, he was paid `1.5 crore and the work began. But as the work progressed, with continued supply from his end, the Kundus stopped his payments. He soon ran up a bill upto `6 crore and asked Kundu brothers for his money, but they threatened to kill him, he said.
“Under compulsion, I had to keep the plant running. Later they bought my plant for about ` 62 lakh and gave me `31 lakh. They gave me a cheque for my dues of about `6 crore but it bounced,” he
added.
An FIR was registered against MLA Kundu, his brother, and Lamba under sections 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using forged document), 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC at Moti Nagar Police Station, Sagar on January 2021, police said.