Four held for cheating telecom company Uninor

NEW DELHI - Four people accused of cheating telecommunications company Uninor of Rs.95 lakh have been arrested, police said Saturday.

Manoj Pahwa, 34, Varun Mittal, 23, Rahul Sharma, 33, and Nitin Sharma, 24, were arrested Thursday for having cheated the company - a joint venture of Norway-based Telenor and Indian firm Unitech - through fraudulent withdrawals using cheques stolen from the company’s office in Saket area of south Delhi, a police official said.

“The stolen cheques with forged signatures of the authorised signatory of the company were credited in 13 different accounts. Their holders who were traced and interrogated led us to Manoj Pahwa, a chartered accountant,” said a police official.

According to police, Pahwa confessed that he received three allegedly forged cheques from Mittal, a Meerut-based aeronautical engineer. Around Rs.6.50 lakh were recovered from his premises.

“Rahul Sharma, an employee of Uninor, stole the cheques and gave them to Mittal, who took them to his colleague Amrita Kumari Sharma, who forged the signatures, added the official.

Amrita is at large while the four accused are in police remand for four days.

The police have recovered around Rs.30 lakh and a kg of gold from the accused.