Delhi Police EOW held a proclaimed offender who conned telecom giant Aircel
New Delhi, September 8
The Delhi Police Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has worked out a 10 year old case of cheating and forgery with respect to issuance of SIM cards on fabricated ID proofs and utilising them for international calling worth Rs. 1.76 Crores.
The accused was identified as Chitresh Mohan Sharma from Jaitpur who waa declared a proclaimed offender by the court under sections 420/467/468/471/420 of the IPC.
As per the case details, in January 2010 a telecom company Aircel authorized representative complained that one Deepak Rawat claiming himself to be running company in the name of M/s LA Bella export and import Ltd got issued 10 mobile connections on fake ID proofs and used them for international roaming calls worth Rs. 1.76 Crore.
During investigation, the EOW found out that 10 postpaid numbers were issued in the name of one Deepak Rawat. He requested the telecom company for international roaming facility on the numbers. After some time Aircel company received information from Nepal Telecom that some people are utilizing international roaming facility from Nepal with very high usage. Detailed investigation in this regard revealed that these calls were routed through Nepal to USA & Maldives.
The investigation could not establish the identity of Deepak Rawat as documents provided in his name were all fake. Later on during minute scrutiny of documents it was revealed that there was no entity in the name of Deepak Rawat and the present accused Chitresh was the man posing as Deepak Rawat who was absconding and later on declared proclaimed offender in 2017 by the Saket court.
Add CP (EOW) RK Singh stated that Chitresh Mohan obtained Aircel SIM card connections on fake identity of Deepak Rawat claiming himself to be running a company in the name of M/s LA Bella export and import Ltd. The SIM cards were then used for international roaming for business purpose.Calls were routed via Nepal to USA & Maldives causing huge loss to the tune of Rs. 1.76 Crore to Aircel company.
The accused was also wanted in the similar case of fraud in Sarita Vihar police station.
