The Crime branch of Chandigarh police on Monday claimed to have arrested five persons, including manager of car agency, who allegedly committed fraud by getting vehicle loans on the basis of fake documents. Police officials said the arrested accused have been identified as Samar Thakur, Dushyant Kumar, Sonu Thakur, Parkash and Manoj Kumar.
The mastermind of this gang, Samar Thakur, used to search the genuine persons for vehicle loan and obtained their documents for verification. later, he returned their documents by saying that on the basis of these documents loan cannot be approved, but kept the photocopies of all those documents. later, by editing all those documents, they prepared the documents of fake person by any name and posed one of them as that person before bank for obtaining loan and received the delivery of vehicles.
A complaint was lodged by Narinder Kumar, resident of Ram Darbar, when he received a letter at his residence in the name of Vinod Kumar, for congratulating him on buying a new car. However he approached the police, as no person of such name was living at his residence. During the course of investigation, police arrested five persons and also recovered 11 cars, purchased on the basis of these fake documents.
Briefing about their modus-operandi, Jagbeer Singh, DSP, Crime branch said that Samar Thakur, along with Sonu Kumar, Parkash and Manoj Kumar (Finance manger of a Auto company) prepared the documents of fake person by any name and posed one of them as that person before bank for obtaining loan and received the delivery of vehicles. The accused gang then prepared fake sale bills and retail invoices for registering the vehicles without the name of financing bank in the Registration Certificate and sold the same to the general needy purchasers.