Honey trap: JP Nagar police finally register FIR

BENGALURU: After Deccan Chronicle published a report that the JP Nagar police were refusing to file an FIR in a case involving a PIO doctor from Australia, who was fleeced by a woman from the city, the police finally registered the case on Monday night, following orders from Police Commissioner N.S. Megharikh. The DC report, ‘City Woman honey-traps NRI Doc’, was published on November 30, 2015.

Dr Surendra Kapoor, Dr Nanda’s friend, told this newspaper, “When my several visits to the police station did not yield any result, I met Police Commissioner N.S. Megharikh and told him about our ordeal. He immediately ordered his junior officers to register the FIR and demanded a report within two days.”

Dr Kapoor said, “It was a five-month-long struggle and I thank the senior officers for taking the initiative. After I met Mr Megharikh, I approached the J.P. Nagar police station around 10 pm and registered the FIR against the accused woman, Tahseem Sultana alias Komal Sultana. After the news report was published, Sultana sent a mail to Dr Nanda stating that she would handover all the property papers to him. She also gave her address and phone number in the mail, but they turned out to be false,” Dr Kapoor said.

When DC contacted JP Nagar police, they said, “Yes, we registered an FIR on Monday night in the honey-trap case. We had earlier asked the complainant to give us a written complaint, but he didn’t turn up the next day, and no complaint was registered. However, now we have begun the probe,” said J.P. Nagar Inspector Mahajan.  

Sultana, alias Preeti Thakur, had offered several schemes to Dr Nanda, 72, in June 2015 to invest in real estate across Bengaluru. But she had trapped him in a web of lies and forgery. She had used Dr Nanda’s power of attorney to register three properties in her name, but later refused to transfer them to Dr Nanda.

Dr Nanda approached the J.P. Nagar police in September 2015 to file a complaint, but he was allegedly shooed away.