Srinagar- The High Court of J&K and Ladakh has rejected bail plea of a man from Tamil Nadu accused of duping an army officer, posted in Khanabal area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, of over one crore rupees on account of fake property deal by posing himself as a big businessman, financer and co-producer of Bahubali (Movie) besides claiming access to Parliament and President’s House.
The 34-year-old accused person, Nagraj V, according to police has been found to be allegedly involved in financial scams in the state of Tamil Nadu besides being an accused in grabbing rupees five crores from a film producer, music director and medical students in the name of medical seats and from others for clearing a project in which his father and sister were also involved.
“The allegations against the petitioner (Nagraj) are serious in nature that he not only showed the fake documents of the property that was not owned by him but also duped the complainant for an amount of Rs. 1.06 crores…..”said a bench of Justice Rajnesh Oswal, adding, “With the recovery of the sale deed on 10.07.2024, the investigation of the case has reached at a crucial stage, as such, this Court is not inclined to accept the prayer of the petitioner (Nagraj) for grant of bail at this stage.”
The court also directed the SSP concerned to supervise and monitor the investigation himself to ensure fair investigation. Further, the court directed the Investigating Officer to conclude the investigation as expeditiously as possible.
According to the police, Nagraj came into contact with the complainant in the month of August 2023 and by posing himself as a big businessman, financer, co-producer of Bahubali (Movie), expressed his desire to invest in Kashmir. He also asked the complainant that if he was interested in buying a house in Delhi, he could get him the same at reasonable rates. On 8 September 2023, Nagraj requested him to transfer Rs. 12 lacs in his father’s account as he was going to the President’s house. The complainant transferred Rs. 11 lacs from his account and Rs. 1 lac from his wife’s account. On 12 September, 2023, Nagraj called the complainant to Delhi for discussing the property matter and the complainant went to his house in Defence Colony, New Delhi.
Nagraj showed the property papers of his house to him and claimed that he and his father were its owners, and they wanted to sell it. As the complainant was looking for a property, so he agreed to buy and asked him to prepare a written agreement, the police said.
Nagrai, the police said, told the complainant that he would send the same by post as the documents were lying in Chennai, but he never did so. In October 2023, Nagraj, police said, called the complainant to Chennai, where he showed some apartment, where renovation work was going on, as his production house. The complainant on asking of Nagraj deposited Rs. 32 lacs in the account of K. Vishnu Sagar, Nagraj’s father, Rs. 30 lacs in the account of Ranjeet Surya Ganesan (Nagraj’s Chennai friend) and Rs. 44 lacs in his own account. The sum of Rs. 1.06 crores was paid by the complainant through his own and wife’s account. When the suspicion arose in the mind of the complainant, he enquired and came to know that the property did not belong to Nagraj, and he had shown him false papers pertaining to property. When the complainant asked him to return his money, he kept on delaying the same and finally issued cheques for an amount of Rs. 1 crore and due to insufficient funds, the cheques were bounced.
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