Delhi man commits suicide over fraud case involving MLA Sidhu

CHANDIGARH: A 24-year old chartered secretary (CS), Dinesh Kumar of Delhi, committed suicide, blaming three of this friends, who were summoned by Chandigarh police in connection with a high profile fraud case registered against eight persons, including a sitting Punjab MLA, Jeet Mohinder Singh Sidhu.
Kumar committed suicide at his house in New Usmanpur in Delhi on December 3.Delhi police has contacted Chandigarh police seeking details about the three friends -- Bhanu Pand, Satish Joshi and Kirti Mohan Negi aka Monu -- on Wednesday, who are absconding.
UT police had issued notices to the three to join the investigations on November 27 and they were scheduled to appear before the economic offences wing (EOW)-17 on December 3.
Sidhu, along with nine others, including two Ludhiana residents, was booked in the Rs 60-crore fraud case at PS 3 in September, 2013. Sources in EOW-17 told TOI, "Names of the three persons cropped up during investigations when one of the accused, along with Sidhu, Gaurav Sharma of Ludhiana, was grilled."
Sub-inspector Surinder Kumar of EWO, probe officer in the high profile fraud case, said, "Delhi police sought the nature of notices issued against the three and their role in the fraud case, which is being probed by us." Notices against the Delhi residents were issued through e-mail registry, Kumar said. An FIR under section 306 (abetment of suicide) and section 34 (common intention) against the three was lodged at New Usmanpur police station, Delhi.
The probe officer from Delhi police, SI Mohinder Pal Singh, said, "We have searched the offices of Bhanu, Joshi and Negi and found notices slapped against them by Chandigarh police on December 7. The trio is absconding and Negi's anticipatory bail application has been rejected two days back."
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The case
On September 17, 2013, Raman Uppal, a resident of BD Estate area in New Delhi, lodged an FIR stating that Sidhu is the main accused, who had hatched a conspiracy and facilitated other miscreants to defraud him. He alleged that the eight accused had duped him of nearly Rs 60 crore by cheating him in the name of a company, International Customer Related Management Services (ICRMS) Pvt Ltd. The other accused were Sukhbir Singh, his wife Gurbir Kaur, residents of Mohali, Gurdeep Singh, Narinder Singh, Rajdeep Singh, Brij Kishore Tiwari, all residents of Ludhiana, and Kamal Kishore Gupta, a resident of Delhi.
The chain
Gaurav Sharma of Ludhiana was grilled to confirm the downloading of forged E-forms, who revealed the names of three Delhi residents. Records of various mails have established links between Sharma, Pand, Joshi and Negi. In his complaint to Delhi police, Amar Singh, father of the deceased youth, alleged that his son had conveyed him about the intention of the three to implicate him in a forgery case.