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Tihar inmate, 2 associates held for extorting Rs 50 crore | Delhi News - Net4News

NEW DELHI: Police have arrested high-profile conman and Tihar Jail inmate Sukesh Chandrasekhar and at least two of his associates outside on charges of extorting a staggering Rs 50 crore from a top business family of the country. This is the biggest sum extorted from within a jail in Delhi, showing the ease with which prison inmates are keeping their business alive.

Sukesh, a source said, contacted the victim’s family, informing them about a criminal investigation about to be initiated against them and promised help in lieu of money. At first, Chandrasekhar allegedly claimed contacts in high places, which is his usual modus operandi, and then spoke to the victims posing as a top government official. He later claimed the expenses allegedly incurred by him and coerced the victims to pay. Conman used names of top CBI officials His associates collected the money on his behalf at an undisclosed location. Chandrasekhar has been booked for extortion, cheating and impersonation and is being interrogated about the conspiracy. An FIR was registered in this connection in the last week of July. Sources said there could be more than one victim and the cops are questioning him about this. A phone, which he was using in the jail, has sent for forensic analysis. He was recently shifted from Tihar to Rohini jail because of this. Chandrasekhar had been earlier arrested for allegedly taking money from TTV Dhinakaran to bribe Election Commission officials to get AIADMK’s two-leaves symbol for the Sasikala faction. At that time, he was trying to strike a Rs 50-crore deal by claiming to have contacts in the EC. While the sum involved at that time was assumed to be at least Rs 10 crore, crime branch cops had seized Rs 1.3 crore in cash from his hotel room in Delhi during a raid in 2017. Before that, he was arrested with his girlfriend, “Madras Cafe” actress Leena Maria Paul, on the charges of cheating businessmen while claiming to be film producers. The cops had raided a farmhouse in south Delhi and seized many luxury cars. The conman was also accused of misusing the names of top CBI officials to extort money from former TDP MP Rayapati Sambasiva Rao. He had posed as a senior CBI officer and also as a senior official of the ministry of home affairs and demanded Rs 100 crore from the former MP to bail him out of the CBI case. Sambasiva Rao is facing charges of committing one of the biggest bank frauds in the country worth Rs 7,926 crore through his Transstroy (India) Ltd company and allegedly diverting funds to fictitious firms. Chandrasekhar was also charged with providing undue favours to police escort teams which had taken him to Bengaluru, Coimbatore and Mumbai for their investigation. Chandrasekhar, who is in his thirties, is no novice in the world of crime. His tryst with crime began at the age of 17 in Bengaluru. Fond of a lavish lifestyle, he duped people of several crores in Bengaluru and Chennai at an young age. A resident of Bengaluru, he would pose as a relative of politicians and cheat innocents of huge sums by promising them government jobs or properties. He would buy expensive cars with the money. His collection of cars included a Rolls-Royce. At least two dozen cases are pending against him all over the country. Source link Read the full article