November 4th 2023.
Five years after escaping arrest, the 54-year-old director of a construction company, Raju Siddhya Sulire, was arrested by the Mira Bhayandar-Vasai Virar police. He and his accomplices had duped nearly 150 investors and home-seekers in the coastal area of Arnala near Virar to the tune of more than ₹30 crore.
The team of police officers, led by Inspector Pramod Badhaakh and PSI Umesh Bhagwat, had tracked Sulire down to Kengeri area of Bengaluru in Karnataka. The accused had floated several construction companies between 2001 and 2018, deceiving gullible home seekers and investors by showcasing a couple of their completed buildings.
After receiving money from the home-seekers and investors, Sulire had failed to hand over possessions. He had even sold a single flat in under-construction buildings to multiple buyers by registering the properties on the virtue of fake and fabricated documents.
In May 2018, a complaint was registered against seven people including Sulire under the relevant sections of the IPC for cheating and criminal conspiracy, along with the provisions of the Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors Act, 1999. While some of his accomplices had been arrested earlier, Sulire had managed to procure anticipator bails from the court.
However, his bail application was rejected by the Apex court last year. He went absconding and kept changing his locations in order to avoid arrest. After investigations, the police learnt about Sulire’s presence in Bengaluru and arrested him with the help of their local counterparts in Karnataka. The Arnala police are conducting further investigations.
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