Sukesh Balaji, an accused in AIADMK symbol bribery case, who was arrested and imprisoned in Tihar Jail was produced in a Coimbatore court for a cheating case, which was registered against him by the Crime Branch police here in 2010.
Sukesh Balaji had cheated Rajavelu, a Coimbatore - based industrialist in 2010 and collected Rs.2.5 lakhs from him. The accused had impersonated himself as a higher official in the rank of deputy secretary in Andhra Pradesh Government and contacted Rajavelu under the pretext of helping him to get a contract for kitchen and medical equipments.
When Sukesh Balaji had demanded another Rs.3.5 lakhs Rajavelu, smelt a rat and went to verify the former’s credentials. Rajuvelu then realized that the impersonator had cheated him out of his money. Following which, Rajavelu preferred a complaint to the city crime branch police and the case was filed in in Judicial Magistrate court here.
As a warrant was issued by the court to arrest Sukesh the police after obtaining a prison transit order brought him to the city and produced him in the court. As the court has ordered that Sukesh be kept under judicial custody till June 22, following which the accused was taken back to Tihar Jail in Delhi by a train with high security.
Sukesh Balaji had cheated Rajavelu, a Coimbatore - based industrialist in 2010 and collected Rs.2.5 lakhs from him. The accused had impersonated himself as a higher official in the rank of deputy secretary in Andhra Pradesh Government and contacted Rajavelu under the pretext of helping him to get a contract for kitchen and medical equipments.
When Sukesh Balaji had demanded another Rs.3.5 lakhs Rajavelu, smelt a rat and went to verify the former’s credentials. Rajuvelu then realized that the impersonator had cheated him out of his money. Following which, Rajavelu preferred a complaint to the city crime branch police and the case was filed in in Judicial Magistrate court here.
As a warrant was issued by the court to arrest Sukesh the police after obtaining a prison transit order brought him to the city and produced him in the court. As the court has ordered that Sukesh be kept under judicial custody till June 22, following which the accused was taken back to Tihar Jail in Delhi by a train with high security.