A man who defrauded thousands of people of over Rs 300 crore in Maharashtra has been arrested by the Mathura police. The accused was hiding in Mathura disguised as a monk. When reporting the incident, police said he hid here pretending to be a monk to avoid arrest.
Police said Baban Vishwanath Shinde was killed at the Krishna Balram Temple during a joint operation by Vrindavan and Beed district police, the news agency reported. ) was arrested nearby. A police officer said Shinde was wanted in connection with several fraud cases worth about Rs 300 crore.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Sandeep Kumar Singh said that Shinde, who had deceived hundreds of people, was hiding in many parts of Delhi, Assam, Nepal and Uttar Pradesh in the image of a saint so that the police could not catch him. . “He was eventually found hiding in Vrindavan,” the police officer said.
The accused was arrested late Tuesday night and Shinde was produced before the chief judicial magistrate the next day. According to officials, a crime branch team from Maharashtra’s Beed district arrested him after obtaining transit remand from a Mathura court.
Sub-inspector SS Murkute, a member of the special investigation team formed by Beed district SSP Avinash Bargal, said Shinde lured people by promising them high interest on their deposits and made them invest their money in four branches of the National Cooperative Bank. Agreed to do.
“The total fraud committed by the defendant also included properties purchased with stolen money,” Murcutt said. Murcutt said the defendant ruined the lives of more than 2,000 people in this fraud.
