Jamshedpur: Kadma police today booked a man, identified as Tapeshwar Das, for allegedly filing a fake case of loot of cash worth Rs 3 lakh from him with the help of his accomplices in a bid to ditch his creditor to avoid paying an equal sum.
Kadma police have registered an FIR against Das under Sections 182, 211, 324, 326 and 120B of IPC for misleading police and registering a fake case through criminal conspiracy.
Senior superintendent of police (SSP), East Singhbhum, Amol Venukant Homkar said the accused, a resident of Bhatia Busti, Kadma, had falsely registered a complaint with the Kadma police station stating that some unidentified criminal had looted the cash from him at the point of a knife on 22nd July last in Kadma police station area.
�On investigation, we found that the accused had planned a fake story of loot in a bid to avoid paying Rs 2 lakh which he had borrowed from one Fateh Chandra Agrawal alias Fatia Seth of Dhalbhumgarh.
As he was unable to pay the amount back to his creditor, he came up with the plan to concoct a loot story and lodge an FIR,� said the SSP.
Police unraveled the fake loot story on the basis of CCTV footage which did not match with the descriptions of the Kadma branch of State Bank of India where Das had claimed to have gone to deposit the cash before the �loot� as entered in the FIR.
�Das had told us that he had failed to deposit the cash in Kadma due to rush of customers in the bank that day. He said he then decided to deposit the cash with the Bistupur branch. On his way, he was looted by a man carrying a knife. He also told us that he was injured in his hand.
But on seeing the footage, we found his statements made in the FIR unfounded. There was no rush in the bank that day. Also there was no bag in which he claimed to have been carrying the cash in the FIR. He only stayed in the bank for 41 seconds,� said the SSP.
Investigators� doubts and findings were corroborated finally when they interrogated the supposed victim. �The complainant spilled the beans and told us he had filed a fake case to evade his creditors.
He had asked his friend Ashish Kumar Upadhyaya to help him. He gave Rs 100 to his friend to purchase a knife and attack him slightly on his way to make it look like a real loot. He also took along his friend Mukesh Sardar to be a witness of the fake loot,� the SSP said.
Investigators confiscated the motorcycle used by Upadhyaya in committing the pre-planned fake loot.
