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Monday, Aug 09, 2004

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Two held for cheating

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, AUG. 8. The parents' obsession to get their wards admitted to premier schools and institutes can at times bring huge financial loss to them if they fall into the trap of frauds. Two such cheats, a 39-year-old man and his nephew, have been arrested by the Economic Offences Wing of the Crime Branch for allegedly duping people on the pretext of getting their children admitted to top schools and business management institutions.

The EOW recently received a complaint from a person alleging that he had lost Rs. 4 lakhs to Sunil Rana, a veterinary doctor. The complainant had paid the amount for a girl's admission to IMT Ghaziabad and a boy's admission to the R.K. Puram branch of Delhi Public School. He came in contact with Rana in September last. Rana promised him that the admission of the children would be confirmed by December last or January this year. Not suspecting his intentions, the complainant gave away Rs. 4 lakhs to Rana. However, when the admissions were not confirmed by March this year, the complainant went to Rana's house to enquire and was shocked to find that he had shifted to some other place.

The complainant later found out that Rana had cheated several other people using similar modus operandi. When he again contacted Rana, his girlfriend, Natasha, and a relative, Rahul Chandel, for his money, they threatened him with dire consequences.

Acting on the complaint, the EOW sleuths mounted raids at Rana's office and recovered incriminating documents, including photocopies of two provisional degrees of Bachelor of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, issued in the name of Rana and his wife, Supriya Singh. The documents also comprised their certificate of registration purportedly issued by the Delhi Veterinary Council. A close scrutiny of the documents revealed that they were forged.

In the meantime, Rana and his maternal uncle, Rahul Chandel, were arrested. During interrogation, the latter disclosed that he had copied the details of his and his wife's certificates from those of one doctor, Surender Yadav, who had come looking for a job in a clinic they were running at Masoodpur Market. Soon after Rana and Chandel were arrested, six other people contacted the police alleging that they were also cheated by the duo to the tune of over Rs. 15 lakhs on the pretext of arranging admissions to Delhi Public School, IMT Ghaziabad and certain other institutes. Further investigations are on.

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