Thane crime: Man evading arrest for three years in 'cheque forgery scam' apprehended

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Police has arrested a man who had been evading law enforcement for over three years in Maharashtra's Thane on November 11. The individual is accused of defrauding numerous people by forging cheques and other documents, according to an official.

The accused was nabbed from near a college in Mira Road area on November 11.

The case came to light on March 11, 2020, when the Mira Road police received a complaint from a manager at a private bank. The complaint stated that an unidentified person had fraudulently withdrawn Rs 11,92,500 from a single account using three forged cheques. The suspect then redirected the funds into accounts held at different banks before making the withdrawals, central crime unit's senior police inspector Rahul Rakh told news wire PTI.

A subsequent investigation led the police to register an offense against the unidentified culprit under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, including 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of valuable documents), 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating), and 471 (using as genuine a forged document).

The police employed a combination of technical and intelligence inputs to track down the accused, who had been frequently changing his location. Acting on a tip-off, the authorities successfully apprehended him near a college in the Mira Road area.

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Upon interrogation, it was revealed that the accused was involved in four cases of cheating based on forged documents, registered with Mira Road (Thane), Nalla Sopara, Arnala Sagri, and Valiv police stations (Palghar). Additionally, further questioning exposed the suspect's extensive criminal history, with similar offenses dating back to 2004 in Thane, neighboring Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, and Nagpur. The accused had previously faced arrests in some of these cases.

The individual is now in police custody and will face legal proceedings for his alleged involvement in multiple cases of fraud and forgery spanning several years and locations.

Meanwhile, an unidentified man allegedly attacked a 34-year-old doctor at his clinic in Thane over a dispute. According to a police official, the man also damaged the doctor's car.

"The man walked into the doctor's clinic at Kausa in Mumbra area on November 13 evening when he was examining a patient," the police stated.

Quoting the doctor's complaint, the police official from Mumbra police station said, "The attacker carried a box in his hand, and he said that he had brought sweets for the doctor. The accused then said he had given talaq to his wife and claimed the doctor had an affair with her."

"The man allegedly hit the doctor on his back, then ran out of the clinic and also attacked the doctor's car," the complaint stated. (With inputs from PTI)