Dehradun police have arrested Saurabh alias Raj Chaudhary, native of Ghaziabad for allegedly duping one Jogindar Singh, native of Amritsar (Punjab), of Rs 25.5 lakh. Singh had registered a complaint at Patelnagar police station on October 17. In his written complaint, he stated that Anmol and others had duped him of Rs 25 lakh in the pretext of enrolling his son in MBBS in SGRR Medical College.
Acting on the complaint, a case under sections 420/467/468/471 of IPC was registered against the accused.
Following the direction of SSP Sadanand Date, a team led by SI Navneet Bhandari was formed at police station and its members began investigating the case. Acting on the tip off, police arrested one of the accused named Raj Chaudhary involved in it from Manant Indresh Hospital parking basement on Friday.
Team members are working hard to arrest remaining two accused Anmol alias Deepak alias Ravindra, native of Delhi and Vivek Rana, unidentified address, said police officer.
In course of interrogation, the accused Raj Chaudhary is learnt to have admitted his crime and said that a gang including himself is operational in Uttarakahnd and they duped the people of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Uttarakhand and other places, of lakhs of rupees in the pretext of enrolling them or their relative in MBBS course in reputed medical colleges.
Fraud case involving forged admission in medical college was also reported in police station of Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Rajasthan and others against gang members in the past. Police teams are reviewing crime history of the gang.