Ghaziabad. Nagar Kotwali police and SIT formed in the loan scam of Rs 400 crore have arrested another associate of loan mafia Lakshya Tanwar. The arrested accused gang leader Lakshya Tanwar’s office is assistant. He used to become a witness in the fake registry.
The accused has been arrested after the name came to light in the investigation. In this case, many prize accused including bank officials are absconding. Police is on the lookout for them. SP City First Nipun Aggarwal told that Mahendra Devi of Turabnagar had filed a case on August 30, 2021 at Nagar Kotwali.
Loan of 2.5 crores taken from Chandranagar branch of PNB
He said that he has a 50-yard one-storey house in Turabnagar. Some time ago he had to sell his house. Through some person she came in contact with Lakshya Tanwar of Kavinagar. Lakshya had taken his photographs and other documents. It is alleged that his one-storey house was shown to be sold to four people by showing four floors and took a loan of 2.5 crores from the Chandranagar branch of Punjab National Bank on it.
Lakshya Tanwar colluded with bank officials
Tushar Goyal of Krishna Colony, the registry of one of these floors, had shown his name for Rs 68 lakh, while this floor was not there on the spot. Lakshya Tanwar, in connivance with the bank officials, got the account opened by setting up another woman in place of Mahendra Devi. After this Mahendra Devi was made the guarantor in the loan.
In September 2020, Mahendra Devi came to know about the incident after receiving a loan notice from the bank. After which he filed the report. SP City said that in the investigation of this case, the name of Niranjan of Kallupura, compound of Nagar Kotwali, had come up. He had become a witness in the fake registry. Niranjan is originally from village Bisanpur in district Banka, Bihar. He has been arrested.
Police could not arrest six accused in the case
The police have so far arrested 12 accused in this loan scam case. While six accused are absconding in the case. Earlier, the police had announced a reward of Rs 15,000 each on the four accused. These include Daksh Bagga, Vishesh Behl, Suraj Kalra and Rajrani Kalra. At the same time, two bank officials Tariq Hassan and Sanjay are also absconding. The SIT of the police is raiding in search of everyone.
Let us inform that 40 FIRs have been registered against loan mafia Lakshya Tanwar including his associates and bank officials in the loan scam of Rs 400 crore. In 15 of these cases, the police have filed charge sheets. The chargesheet includes Lakshya Tanwar, his father Ashok Kumar, associates Varun Tyagi, Shivam, three PNB managers Ramnath Mishra, Priyadarshini and Utkarsh Kumar. In the remaining 25 cases, the police is yet to file the charge sheet. In these cases too, the police will soon file a chargesheet.