In fresh development in the cheating case of Rs 4.72 in which a metal dealer of city was duped, police succeeded in rounding up the driver of vehicle (MUV) who had gone away with 400 kgs of nickel after handing the fake demand draft (DD) to the victim.
Police informed that during interrogation the driver told police that he runs a Tata Magic (CG-10 C-4136) in Bilaspur. One June 26 last month he was standing with his vehicle in the auto stand at Bilaspur waiting for customers. Suddenly an unidentified person approached him and hired for transporting some consignment to Bilaspur from Raipur. “According to the driver the unidentified person handed him the DD to give it to Ved Sourav in Raipur,” police said, and added that the unidentified person instructed the driver identified as Brijmohan Singla to keep the metal in his home in Sirgitti area from where he would take it away. The unidentified man had hired Singla for `1800 police, informed.
Police going by the statement of Singla further said, he reached at the shop of Ved Sourav in Raipur and loaded 400 kgs of nickel in his vehicle. After giving the DD to him he left for Bilaspur. Singla then reached his home in Sirgitti, Bilaspur with the nickel from where the unidentified man took away it in another vehicle.
Police further said, Ved Sourav when reached bank with the DD he was came to know that the `4.72 lakh DD was fake. The panicked Ved Sourav then reported the matter to police. The case was initially registered with Moudhapara police station but it was later shifted to Amanaka police station as the godown of Ved Sourav is located in the limits of Amanaka police station.