Jagran correspondent, Kanpur. Four victims, including two doctors, have now filed a zero FIR against master fraudster Ravindranath Soni in Sadar Kotwali on Sunday for defrauding him of about Rs 9.44 crore.
The four victims are natives of Ahmedabad, Jamnagar, Anand Nagar in Gujarat and Ranchi in Jharkhand and have been living with their families in Dubai for many years.
At the same time, the Kotwali police has sent the documents against the gangster to the DCP East office, after which now all the documents can be sent to the ED by Monday.
The number of cases against gangster Ravindranath Soni, resident of Malviya Nagar, Delhi, is continuously increasing. On Saturday, Manikandan Rajagopal, resident of Kolathur Madanamkuppam Road, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, had filed a case of fraud of Rs 98,44,100 against Rabindranath Soni, Gurneet Kaur.
After this, Dr. Avesh Ashok Pataria of Anand district of Gujarat, living in Dubai, reached Sadar Kotwali on Sunday. According to him, Rabindranath Soni and his associates cheated him of Rs 2,56,78,758 in the name of investing in a blue chip commercial broker company.
Similarly, Prahlad Prasad, originally resident of Jam Nagar, Gujarat, working in an IT company in Dubai, has accused Rabindranath Soni of defrauding him of Rs 4,89,11920, Nidhi Vijay Mehta of Ahmedabad of defrauding him of Rs 1,22,27980 and Dr Pulak Puneet, originally of Ranchi district of Jharkhand, living in Dubai, of defrauding him in the name of investment of Rs 76,25,746.
Everyone has filed a complaint in Sadar Kotwali and lodged zero FR. ACP Kotwali Ashutosh Singh told that whatever FIR has been lodged. They will be transferred to the police stations of the respective districts. The investigation of those victims will be done from there itself. Whatever cooperation the concerned police station will seek from here. Will be given to them.
Cheated more than Rs 1500 crore from a thousand people from 10 countries
So far, in the SIT investigation, Rabindranath Soni has defrauded more than a thousand people from 10 countries including India, UAE, Japan, Canada, Malaysia, Nepal. The amount of fraud is likely to be more than Rs 1500 crore. The number of victims is continuously increasing.