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The accused husband was arrested on the complaint of the showroom, while his wife is still absconding.
The man and his wife used to purchase luxury cars on a frequent basis and then sell them at cheap rates (Representative image)
In a bizarre incident, the police on Saturday arrested a man after he fled with a luxury car worth Rs 26 lakh from a showroom by showing a fake cheque clearance message in Uttar Pradesh’s Noida.
The man and his wife used to purchase luxury cars on a frequent basis and then sell them at cheap rates, yielding huge profits. The cops also got off the guard when they came to know about the bizarre way of couple’s earning. The couple used to show a fraudulent message of car payment’s cheque clearance at the car showroom, reported News18 Hindi.
The fraud was exposed when the police came to know about the fraudulent message. The accused husband was arrested on the complaint of the showroom, while his wife is still absconding. Two police teams are raiding possible hideouts in search of the woman.
During interrogation, the man has revealed shocking details about his fraud. The man, identified as Rajdev, director of a software company, lives in a flat with his wife Koyal Dev in Cleo County Society of Noida Phase 3 police station area.
According to the police, the couple had booked Tata Safari online on August 10 last year from Sagar Motors located in Sector 5 by paying Rs 11,000. The couple issued a cheque from their bank account in the name of Sagar Motors. Soon, they got the cheque returned and created a fake message showing a payment of Rs 26 lakh in the account of the car dealer. On the day the couple issued the cheque, there was only Rs 995 in their account.
The couple took delivery of the car by showing fake payment. Later, the company during its internal audit discovered that the cheque issued by Rajdev was not cleared. The message that the accused showed to the agency was fake.
According to the police, during the cheque clearance, the payment of money was displayed for some time in the bank account of company. Taking advantage of this, the accused took delivery of the car. However, no payment was made.
It was further revealed that when the car agency used to ask the accused for the payment, he used to assure verbally and in writing to pay the money till the Registration Certificate (RC) is received. After the RC got issued, he used to escape and sell the cars.
The accused had told the police that he sold Tata Safari for Rs 12 lakh to a person named Lalit Kumar Dixit in Delhi through a dealer.
When the fraud came into limelight, the company registered a case against the fraudulent couple. The Police nabbed Rajdev on Friday. However, the wife escaped as soon as she got information about her husband’s arrest. During interrogation, the accused told that he along with his wife had committed similar fraud in the past.
Earlier, the couple had taken delivery of Grand Vitara worth Rs 22 lakh and Toyota Hilux car worth Rs 30 lakh in a similar manner. Police suspected that the couple must have bought cars in several cities by doing similar fraud.
The police team is also finding out from the Assistant Divisional Department about the cars which the couple had purchased by fraud. A case is also registered against them in Himachal Pradesh. It is also being said that many other accused along with the couple are involved in this well-planned fraud.
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