Mumbai : A case of cheating of more than Rs 27 crore from the father-in-law of Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor has come to light. Police have arrested nine people from Delhi, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in this connection. A police officer gave this information on Friday. Deputy Commissioner of Police Nitish Aggarwal said that in July, 2021, a complaint of cyber fraud of Rs 27.61 crore was received from Shahi Export Factory, Faridabad by Sonam Kapoor’s father-in-law, Harish Ahuja.
According to the complaint, the cyber thugs formed a fake company in the name of Harish Ahuja and transferred crores of rupees. He said that after receiving the complaint, the Cyber Police Station of Faridabad started investigation into the matter. Aggarwal said that the Cyber Station Police arrested nine people from Delhi, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu in this case. He said that among these accused, Manoj and Manish, residents of Delhi, were arrested on December 10 and Praveen Kumar and Manish Kumar on December 16.
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After this, Ganesh Parashuram of Irgera village in Raichur district of Karnataka has been arrested on 23 December and Bhushan Kishan of Mumbai Sahin Joglekarwadi, Rahul Raghunath of Raigad in Maharashtra on 29 December. According to Agarwal, Santosh Sitaram Jot of Village Mukam Post in Pune district of Maharashtra, Suresh Kumar of Chennai, Tamil Nadu was arrested on December 29 and Lalit, a resident of New Rajendra Nagar in New Delhi, was arrested on December 23. He told that the accused Manoj Shahi used to transfer the company’s money by making fake DSC of the company.
In the investigation it was found that the license of the royal company worth Rs 27.61 crore has been transferred from his ID. Accused Praveen Kumar used to provide documents/resources used in the crime. Significantly, Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor was married on 8 April 2018 with her boyfriend Anand Ahuja. (agency)
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