UP inspector, husband ‘cheat’ wife of retd govt official, held

Ghaziabad: A UP Police inspector, her husband and their associates were arrested late Tuesday night from Lucknow’s Aliganj area for allegedly cheating the wife of a retired deputy labour commissioner of Rs 1.7 crore.
The inspector, identified as Nargis Khan, is posted in Bareilly and currently on leave. Her husband Suresh Yadav runs a restaurant and a petrol pump. The couple is originally from Meerut. The deputy labour commissioner retired in June this year from Azamgarh.
According to the woman’s complaint, Suresh Yadav met her husband in 2017 when the latter was posted in Bareilly. The same year, a petrol pump was allotted to the victim in Ghaziabad’s Govindpuram. Yadav offered to take care of the petrol pump but the woman refused, saying her son, then in his 20s, would look after it.
However, on October 5, 2017, her son died in a road accident, after which the woman handed over the responsibility of running the petrol pump to Yadav.
A year later, she gave birth to twins. When her husband was transferred to Azamgarh on July 16, 2018, the woman started living in Ghaziabad with her two sons.
In her complaint, the woman alleged that over a period of three years — between 2017 and March 2020 — Yadav forged her signature to take a loan of Rs 67 lakh and also siphoned off nearly Rs 1 crore from the petrol pump’s accounts.
“It was only after the Covid-induced lockdown was imposed that I started visiting the petrol pump regularly. That is when I checked the accounts and came to know about the fraud,” she alleged.
The FIR stated that around 7.30pm on September 27, 2020, the woman went to the petrol pump along with her brother to collect the cash. “Yadav, Nargis and their associates intercepted the victim’s car. They physically assaulted the woman and her brother and used foul language against them,” said the FIR.
The woman claimed she faced issues when she tried to submit a police complaint, after which she wrote to the additional director general of police (ADG), Lucknow. An FIR was lodged at the Kavi Nagar police station on February 3, 2021.
Akash Patel, ASP (Ghaziabad), said the accused were booked under sections 420 (cheating), 406 (punishment for criminal breach of trust), 467 (forgery of valuable security, will), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine forged document or electronic record), 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 354A (sexual assault), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the IPC and relevant sections of the SC/ST Act.
“There are some other people involved in the fraud and more arrests are likely to be made,” Patel added.