A 25-year-old woman has been arrested by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Delhi Police for allegedly cheating various businessmen in national Capital. Police said the accused used to induce innocent victims for delivery of goods against post dated cheques and subsequently gave stop payment instructions to the banks.
According to Dr OP Mishra, the Joint Commissioner of Police, EOW, a complainant along with 10 other victims alleged that the directors Abhishek Tyagi and the present woman Director of the accused company VPG Stores Private Limited induced them for delivery of goods against Post Dated Cheques.
“After receiving the goods the alleged company stopped the payments from the bank, thereby cheating the complainant. The amount involved in the present case is Rs 2.60 Crore (Approx),” said the Joint CP.
“The woman was arrested by police while the main accused Abhishek Tyagi is involved in more than a dozen cases is serving term in Sangrur Jail (Punjab),” said the Joint CP.
Explaining the modus operandi of the accused, the Joint CP said that the main accused Abhishek Tyagi along with accused woman hatched a conspiracy of inducing various businessmen to deliver goods.
“In accordance with the conspiracy, accused woman got appointed herself as the Director as well as Purchase Manager of the company and made calls to the supplier/victims for the supply of goods. Once the goods were supplied, the alleged used to issue Post Dated Cheques. The alleged company initially cleared some cheques to win over the confidence of the victim, so that victims would supply goods in larger quantity, but after getting delivered goods worth crores of rupees, the alleged issued instructions to the bank for stop payment,” said the Joint CP.