Andhra Pradesh cops file 100 case charges
The cases were supervised by CID additional director general of police Ch D Tirumala Rao.
Hyderabad: The AP Crime Investigation Department has created a record of sorts by filing chargesheets in courts in more than 100 cases in a few months.
The CID has filed chargesheets in Akshaya Gold, Abhaya Gold, SVIMS and major cases where lakhs of depositors were duped. The cases were supervised by CID additional director general of police Ch D Tirumala Rao.
The CID said that chargesheets had been filed in 35 cases of SVIMS, 10 of NMart, 20 of Akshaya Gold and 18 of Abhaya Gold and in several other cheating cases.
A CID official said, “Only the AgriGold cases are pending. We are awaiting reports from the Forensic Science Laboratory. A cyber forensic audit is being done and it will take a little more time.”
He said that in most cases the accused had been arrested. A few were absconding including a Malyasian national. Around 120 chargesheets had been filed, he said. “It is easy to file chargesheets against the same company with the same modus operandi as the contents are the same,” he said.
In the Akshya Gold case, the accused collected money and issued certificates promising high returns for a piece of land in lieu of the deposit. The company collected Rs 735 crore as deposits from 15.94 lakh depositors in various states.
An official said the auctioning of properties seized from the company would not be affected by the fall in real estate prices caused by demonetisation.