The Halasuru Gate police are on the lookout for two men who submitted fake property documents to a court as surety for two Delhi businessmen who were recently arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation for allegedly trying to bribe an income tax officer to settle a tax evasion case related to a paan masala company.
The accused, Vinod Kumar Banka and Sanjay Kohli, were arrested by the CBI in Bengaluru in September last year for allegedly transferring money to a middleman through benami accounts. The middleman was to hand over the money to an IT officer who was probing the businessmen in a tax evasion case, said the police.
After hearing the bail application of the accused, the High Court directed the city civil and session court to grant them conditional bail in April this year. On behalf of the businessmen, two men claiming to be residents of Shimoga — Keshava M.P. Mohan, 59, and Satish K. Lakkappa, 39 — submitted documents showing that they own two plots of land, as surety.
The court granted bail and handed over the documents to the officials concerned for scrutiny. During the scrutiny, court officials found that the documents had been forged.
Acting on a complaint filed by the assistant registrar of the city civil and session court, the Halasuru police have taken up a case of cheating, forgery and impersonation.
