A 34-year-old BTech graduate has been arrested for allegedly duping a native of Tripura by posing as a government official and offering to get him a tender from the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MoDWS).
Amit Kumar Burman, a native of Dehradun, has been arrested, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) B. K. Singh.
According to the police, the matter came to light when complainant Mridul Chakraborty approached them and informed that a man who introduced himself as Section Officer Yogesh Kumar has duped him of ₹5.2 lakh.
Mr. Singh said that Amit had got an advertisement published in a local newspaper in Tripura regarding requirement of a Liaison Officer for a government project in north-east India.
Mr. Chakraborty called on the mobile number given in the ad and eventually met Amit outside Shastri Bhawan. Amit introduced himself as Yogesh. “He told the victim that the Ministry needs to outsource a project to a consultancy firm and he can help the victim get the tender if his company is ready to pay ₹1 lakh per district,” said Mr. Singh.
Fake letter from ministry
Mr. Chakraborty paid ₹5.2 lakh to Amit and the accused gave the victim a fake letter of MoDWS in the name of Tirupati IT Solutions.
During investigation, the police examined call detail records of the accused and with the help of the victim, called him to the Central Secretariat metro station where a trap was laid and the accused was apprehended.
During interrogation, it was revealed that the accused had suffered a loss of ₹3 lakh in his business and had decided to cheat people to recover the loss.
“He completed his engineering in 2008 after which he worked with private firms in India, Angola, Nigeria and other countries. In 2015, he returned and started his own firm. He took a tender from a company but it folded and he incurred a loss of ₹3 lakh,” said the DCP.
The police claim to have recovered a mobile phone used in the commission of the crime and a fake letter issued in November 2017.
