The FIR has been registered against Subrata Roy and 17 of his family members and group officials on charges of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy at a police station in UP.
PTI
An FIR has been registered against Sahara chief Subrata Roy and 17 of his family members and group officials on charges of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy at a police station in Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Tuesday, November 30. The case was registered at Kakadeo police station on Sunday against Subrata Roy, his wife Swapna Roy, sons Sushanto Rai and Shimanto Rai, daughters-in-law Chandni Roy and Richa, brother J B Roy, and senior members of the group. Others named in the FIR are company directors Jitendra Kumar Varshney, Karunesh Awasthi, Anil Kumar Pandey, Rana Jia, D K Srivastava, Romi Dutta, Pradeep Srivastava, Omprakash Srivastava and Abdul Dabir and auditors Pawan Kapoor and R N Khanna. Kanpur Commissioner of Police Asim Arun confirmed the registration of the FIR against Subrata Roy and others. The FIR alleged the accused launched several companies and societies and duped over 25 lakh people across the country, including over one lakh residents of Kanpur, totalling over Rs 25 lakh crore. Ajay Tandon, lawyer and national President of Mandar Bhartiya Antarrashtriya, who lodged the complaint on the request of the victims, said the money was deposited through the companies of the accused persons in the name of investment and housing in Kanpur and other parts of the country. The FIR has been registered under sections 420 (Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 467 (Forgery of a valuable security, will or authority to make or transfer any valuable security, or to receive any money, etc.), 468 (Forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (Using as genuine a forged document or electronic record), 120B (Criminal conspiracy) and 34 (Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code related to cheating and forgery.
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