Rs 200 Crore Extortion Case: five Prison Officers Arrested For Serving to Tihar Conman
Conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar has been in prison since 2017. (Document)
New Delhi:
The Delhi Police’s Financial Offences Wing (EOW) has arrested 5 prison officers in reference to the Rs 200 crore extortion case involving conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar.
In line with the police, the arrested prison officers had been known as Sunil Kumar, Sunder Bora, Mahendra Prasad, Laxmi Dutt and Prakash Chand.
Chatting with ANI, Further Commissioner of Police (CP) EOW RK Singh mentioned that the arrested prison officers had been accused of serving to Sukesh Chandrasekhar and accredited bribes for him.
“Sunil Kumar and Sunder Bora are Prison Superintendents, whilst Mahendra Prasad and Prakash Chand are Deputy Prison Superintendents,” Singh mentioned.
The Financial Offences Wing introduced the prison officers prior to a Delhi Court docket which has despatched them to the police custody until November 12.
As many as 19 folks had been arrested within the subject.
The Delhi Police knowledgeable the court docket, “All the way through the investigation, it was once discovered that the accused Sukesh was once working his racket of organised crime with the assistance of a number of prison officers.”
Conman Sukesh has been in prison since 2017 in reference to an election fee bribery case and got here at the radar after Delhi Police registered a case for extorting Rs 200 crore from Ranbaxy promoter Shivinder Singh’s spouse Aditi Singh.
