Three more members of a gang engaged in acting as guarantor for facilitating bails for accused in different crime in the courts in the State capital and nearby district courts have been nabbed by the crime branch Bhopal.
The main accused used to facilitate bails for accused in the Indore, Dewas, Gaurahganj, Ujjain and other nearby districts. Interestingly during the investigation the nabbed accused confessed that the main accused Raju Meena used to arrange all the facilities of meals and stay and which were sponsored by those who require guarantor for bail.
The three accused were identified as Mohammad Iqbal (38) of Talaiya, Rakesh Adani (32) of Ashoka Garden and Vinod Suryavanshi (27) of Govindpura.
Raju Meena is still absconding and search for the absconding accused has been intensified.
ASP Crime Branch Shailedra Singh Chouhan said that in the investigation conducted so far the accused have confessed around 500 bails and the gang was operational for the past 10 years.
The main accused Raju Meean used to have a gang of the size 30-40 people which have worked with him and till date seven have been nabbed.
In the investigation it was also found that the gang members used forged documents to facilitate bail. The crime branch Bhopal has recovered documents and tools used to prepare the documents.
The gang members used to facilitate bail by introducing themselves as relatives and the police suspects that the number of bails would go higher which was found in the earlier investigations.
Notably the fraud surfaced after police were able to nab the accused after two Nepali nationals Gaisul Alam (22) and Jowad Alam (23), accused in circulation of fake currency notes went missing after they were granted bail and the documents used in the bail were found forged.
The guarantors were nabbed by the police and when they were questioned in which the whole matter was unearthed. Earlier Jeevan Meena Singh,Basant Shrivastava , Ganesh Makwana and Khuman alias Virendra Solanki were nabbed by the police after the fraud surfaced.