Sunday, 17 March 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The Dehradun police have booked four accused, including the chief minister’s former personal secretary PC Upadhyay under the Gangster Act for fraud on the pretext of providing government tenders. Several cases of fraud are already registered against the four accused in Dehradun and other areas, the police said.
According to the police, the main accused in the frauds committed on the pretext of providing government tenders PC Upadhyay and Saurabh Vatsa have been arrested and sent to jail. Vatsa along with Upadhyay used to work as an organised gang. They used to allegedly use fake government documents to convince their targets that they would get government tenders for them through e-tendering. They defrauded their victims of crores of rupees. The duo are booked in Dehradun, other districts of the State and in other States also for fraud.
The police informed that a case has been registered against four accused including Vatsa and Upadhyay at the Kotwali under the Gangster Act in Dehradun. The authorities are now in the process of identifying the property amassed illegally by the accused. Their properties will be seized in the near future, the police said. While Vatsa in the native of Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, currently living in Doiwala area, Upadhyay is a resident of the Mohkampur area of Dehradun. Vatsa’s wife Nandini Vatsa and Shahrukh Khan and the two other accused who have also been booked under the Gangster Act.
It will be recalled that while Upadhyay was arrested earlier this week, Vatsa had been arrested earlier by Rajasthan police in Bhilwara in a fraud case registered there. They both had allegedly duped a man of about Rs 52 lakh on the pretext of giving him the tender of supplying medicines to government hospitals in Uttarakhand. The police said that Upadhyay had confessed to duping the man. According to him, his accomplice Vatsa brought the complainant to him on the pretext of giving him the tender for supplying medicines to government hospitals across the State. Both the accused made a fake information memo with the signature of Vatsa. They gave the complainant the memo and a bill of about Rs 52 lakh in the name of various expenditures. This convinced the victim that he had received the tender so he reportedly handed over the money to the accused, the police said.
