Three miscreants involved in duping victims to the tune of Rs 64 lakh facilitating sale of plots of Bhopal Development Authority (BDA) were nabbed and the equipment used to prepare forged documents were recovered.
While talking to media persons here on Monday, DIG Bhopal Dharmendra Choudhary said the modus operandi was that the accused used to identify the interested customers and would accompany them to the BDA office and pose as employees of BDA and would provide allotment letter and took photograph at the plot allotted.
The matter came to fore after a complaint was lodged with the crime branch by BDA regarding fake allotment and providing receipts of BDA. The BDA lodged complaint after victims Vijay Dongre, Jagdish Singh and Narendra Kumar Sharma were duped by the accused to the tune of Rs 20.51 lakh and owner of Verma Travels, Deepak Verma was duped to the tune of Rs 43 lakh.
After receiving the complaint during the investigation Rupesh Sirode was found involved and was nabbed which revealed the nexus working the duping of the victims. The two were nabbed later and computer, printer, stamp, documents were recovered from their possession.
The nabbed accused were identified as Rupesh Sirode (35) of Ayodhya Nagar, Atul Shrivastava (29) of Minal Residency and Ravi Kumar (31) of lalpura Bhind.
The master mind of the nexus Rupesh runs Sarthak Associates in Zone 2 and owns a shop in Indrapuri from which he deals in property, facilitating loan and garments. He has been booked by Piplani police for vehicle lifting in the year 2012.
Atul works with Marketing life Company while Ravi works for a private firm.