The Dehradun police have arrested Shailesh Verma who was a Minister of State (MoS) in Congress Government led by ND Tiwari on charges of forgery and cheating Rs22 lakh from a person.
After his arrest the police produced Verma who is a resident of Kishanpur area of the city, in the court which send him on a remand of 14 days.The Superintendent of Police (SP) city Ajay Singh said that one Ashiq Masood had filed a complaint in the Rajpur police station on September 13 this year that Verma has duped him of Rs22 lakh.
The complainant had alleged that Verma told him that he has secured a contract worth Rs50 lakhs from State roadways for washing and maintenance of its fleet.Verma showed documents of the contract to Masood and offered him a partnership.Verma and Masood even had a valid agreement in the month of October 2013 in which the partnership was inked. Masood got suspicious of Verma as work never started on the project and Verma kept extending the date of start of work on one pretext or other.
A frustrated Masood filed a Right to Information (RTI) with the Uttarakhand roadways and was shocked to know the contract is in the name of someone else.The Station Officer (SO) of Rajpur police station Rajesh Sah told The Pioneer that the documents provided by Verma proved fake on investigation. He said that the police have recovered about 30 fake seals and letter pads from the possession of Verma.