The CBI got here to know Rao had shifted to an ashram in Verul village (Representational)
New Delhi:
A swindler’s 20-year cat-and-mouse recreation with the regulation ended after his arrest by the CBI whereas he was allegedly residing as a non secular guru in a Tamil Nadu village – one of many many aliases he used to dodge the regulation enforcement company.
To evade the regulation, V Chalapathi Rao allegedly created a number of pretend identities, solid new Aadhaar playing cards, lived in lots of states and took up jobs as a pc operator and a mortgage restoration agent.
Rao was arrested on Sunday from Narsinganallur village in Tirunelveli earlier than he may flee but once more, this time to a different nation, officers stated on Monday.
The CBI had registered a case on Might 1, 2002 in opposition to Rao, who was then working as a pc operator in SBI, Chandulal Biradari department, Hyderabad on allegations that he had siphoned off Rs 50 lakh from the financial institution utilizing fabricated quotations of digital outlets and faux wage certificates created within the names of his relations and shut associates, and misappropriated the proceeds of the crime.
Two chargesheets have been filed in 2006.
Within the final 20 years, his household made an try to declare him useless, seven years after he went lacking.
Rao, in the meantime, created an Aadhaar card within the title of 1 M Vineet Kumar and married once more in Salem, officers stated.
“His (first) spouse, who can be an accused within the above fraud case, even lodged an FIR at Kamatipura Police Station dated July 10, 2004. She had additionally filed a petition within the Civil Courtroom to declare the absconding accused as useless after completion of seven years after PO allegedly went lacking. On this regard, an order/decree too was handed by the involved Civil Courtroom of Hyderabad,” a CBI Spokesperson stated.
He was later declared a proclaimed offender, the official stated.
Rao’s second spouse advised the CBI that he was in contact together with his son from his first spouse however earlier than the company may attain him, he fled to Bhopal in 2014 the place labored as mortgage restoration agent after which shifted to Rudrapur in Uttarakhand, the place he labored in a college, the CBI stated in a press release.
Within the ensuing cat-and-mouse recreation, the CBI group tracked him to Rudrapur however returned empty handed as he had fled from Uttarakhand in 2016.
The company then took assist of Gmail’s division that handles requests from regulation enforcement businesses by offering it with Aadhaar card data of M Vineet Kumar, officers stated.
The CBI got here to know Rao had shifted to an ashram in Verul village, Aurangabad however he had managed to get one other Aadhaar card for a brand new alias, thus making it tough to determine him In Aurangabad, he was residing as Swamy Vidhitatmanand Teertha. At the same time as a non secular guru, Rao had allegedly cheated the ashram the place he was staying to the tune of Rs 70 lakh earlier than fleeing to Bharatpur, Rajasthan in December 2021 the place he continued to remain as an ascetic until July 8, 2024.
Rao allegedly stored altering telephone numbers, round 8-10 instances in the course of the interval, and even had deliberate to flee to Sri Lanka utilizing the ocean route.
Officers stated he allegedly fled from Bharatpur and reached Narsinganallur village in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu to stick with one among his disciples and preserve engaged on his plan to maneuver to Sri Lanka.
His plans didn’t take off because the CBI acquired details about his presence within the village the place he was arrested by the company, they stated.
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