Liquor baron Shiv Lal Doda, aides booked for fraud

Abohar, October 6

The police have registered a case against liquor baron Shiv Lal Doda and others for a Rs 6-crore fraud on the statement of Asha Rani, a retired government school headmistress.

After DSP Avtar Singh conducted investigation, a case was registered under Sections 420, 465, 467, 468, 471, 506 and 120B of the IPC with the approval of the district police chief, official sources said.

Besides Doda, Mohinder Pratap, alias Kali Bathla, district president of SAD Traders’ Wing; Rajiv Chugh, manager of Doda family’s Ridhi Sidhi Colony; and Prabh Dayal of Alamgarh village; have been named in the FIR. Doda is in jail as he was sentenced to life imprisonment in connection with murder of his former employee Bhim Tank. — OC