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| 'Lawyers, cops could be part of the extortion gang' | | Kolkata resident who filed fake cases for extortion arrested | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Anantnag, June 3: In a major breakthrough, Anantnag police has arrested a Kolkata resident involved in extorting high profile businessmen of the country by instituting fake complaints against them in different courts of Anantnag and Kulgam.
According to details available with Early Times, Ajay Kumar Agarwal, son of late Dhun Kumar Agarwal, of 3-A Ockland Place, Kolkata, was arrested last month after the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) South Kashmir Range filed a complaint against the accused at police station Anantnag.
DIG South Kashmir in his letter-CRB/SKR/10399-10400 dated 13-05-2019- stated that he had learnt from reliable sources that an office under the name of Host and Finance is being run at KP Road Anantnag by Ajay Kumar Agarwal who is involved in instituting fake complaints in different courts of Anantnag and Kulgam against some persons residing outside the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
"He has established an offence and exploits his employees as a front for filling these false complaints," reads the letter. The DIG added that on the basis of fake complaints, the accused was obtaining non-bailable warrants and was later using them for extracting money from his 'targets'.
On the basis of DIG South Kashmir, Anantnag Police has registered a case against the accused U/S 420, 467, 468 PRC and SIT was constituted to probe the matter.
Anantnag Police has also submitted an initial report in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Anantnag and claimed that investigation of the case was at preliminary stage.
"The investigation of the case at preliminary stage and more recoveries and seizure of forget documents are yet to be made," reads the Police report.
Police in its report said that they have raided the office of accused and seized two laptops, documents and different kind of seals. Two persons Vikram Baderwaj, a resident of New Delhi and Alok Kumar, resident Mayoor Vihar Delhi attended the office of In-charge SIT and stated that on 19-01-2019, a police party from Kashmir visited the house of Vikram Baderwaj and produced a non-bailable warrant which was issued by Judicial Magistrate 1st class Qazigund. The police party arrested Baderwaj and took him to New Delhi's Safdar Jung Police Station; however later released him as they suspected that the warrant was issued in fraud and frivolous case, reads police report.
Sources revealed to Early Times that the accused had setup an office in Anantnag and employed few boys and girls. All those employees have confessed before the police that accused was directing them to file complaints in different courts against non-local businessmen. They said on the basis of those complaints, the accused was obtaining non-bailable warrants and later he was using these warrants and his gang of lawyers for extortion.
They said that Anantnag Police has expiated investigation into the cases and special police teams are being sent to different parts for collecting evidence. Police is also looking that how some police stations were executing non-bailable warrants without availing permission from DIG South Kashmir. |
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