Con man lands in police net

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 31

A con man who had fled away with a car after getting a driver’s job on a fake identity has been arrested by the Chandigarh Police. He had conned several people. He had married four women and later disappeared.

Reetu Puri, a resident of Modern Housing Complex, Mani Majra, had complained to the police that she had recruited a driver, “Rohit Sharma, a resident of Gurdaspur district”. On May 23, hardly a week after he was hired, the driver fled away with an i20 car.

During the investigation, it was found that the name and the address of the accused were fake. After gathering information from the call detail records, the police got to know that the real name of the accused was Bhupinder Singh (28), a resident of Rajpura near Patiala.

Police officials said raids were conducted at his house following which the accused abandoned the stolen vehicle near his house, which was recovered on May 27. 

During the investigation, it came to light that the accused had married four women in Punjab and Uttarakhand.

SP Guriqbal Singh Sidhu said the accused used to marry women and disappear. “He was living on 

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three fake identities — that of Rohit Sharma, Ankush Malik and Rajveer Chauhan,” the SP said.

The con man had two children from his first wife and one from the second one. 

The police said he had also worked as a granthi at a gurdwara in Ludhiana and as a helper at a factory in Haridwar. He also used to take dance and singing classes in Roorkee and had worked as a helper with a lawyer in Amritsar. In March, he started working as a cook at Phillaur in Jalandhar district from where he fled with the owner’s motorcycle.    

Criminal background

In 2012, the accused was arrested by the Punjab Police in a car theft case. He was again arrested in January 2016 after being declared a proclaimed offender in the case.   

Three mobile phones, SIM cards seized

The police have recovered three mobile phones and a large number of SIM cards from the accused, which were procured on fake identities.