The Special Task Force (STF), Uttarakhand arrested Bijnor (UP) native Kamal who had been absconding for about four years after orchestrating a fraud in Dehradun. The Garhwal Range IG/DIG Sanjay Kumar Gunjiyal had on October 1 last year announced a cash reward of `5,000 for his arrest. The accused had duped Dehradun resident Ehsan Ahmed of about `15, 50, 000 on the pretext of facilitating his daughter’s admission in a medical college, said STF SSP P Renuka Devi while interacting with the mediapersons on Monday.
She said that about four years ago, Ballupur, Dehradun resident Ehsan Ahmed had registered a complaint against three persons including Kamal accusing them of having swindled him out of about `15, 50,000 on the pretext of securing his daughter’s admission in a medical college.
Acting on this, a case under sections 420/467/468/471/120n of IPC was registered against the accused in Dalanwala police station.
Two other persons who were allegedly involved in the scam had been arrested earlier by the Dehradun police and sent to jail though Kamal had managed to elude the authorities till now. A team consisting of sub-inspector Santosh Kumar, head constable Satendra Butola, constables Pramod Kumar, Ved Prakash Bhatt and Deepak Bhandari had been formed to nab the accused.
Police received a tip-off about Kamal living in Ghaziabad. Acting on the lead, the police team finally succeeded in arresting him from Ghaziabad on Sunday.
In the course of interrogation, he revealed that he had changed his name and also changed his his location frequently staying in various places in Uttar Pradesh. He was living in a rented accommodation in an apartment in Vaishali, Ghaziabad.
The accused was currently doing business supplying cloth from Ghaziabad to Moradabad, Dehradun and other places.