Man held for cheating people by promising diplomatic cars

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police on Friday arrested a man from south Delhi’s Vasant Kunj for allegedly duping several persons to the tune of crores on the pretext of

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police on Friday arrested a man from south Delhi’s Vasant Kunj for allegedly duping several persons to the tune of crores on the pretext of offering them diplomatic cars at discounted rates.

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The matter came to fore after one Nitin Berry, hailing from Dehradun, lodged a complaint with Vasant Kunj Police Station alleging that he came in contact with a 62-year-old businessman, Sanjeev Behl, who introduced himself as the only exporter of diplomatic cars from embassies and AutoExpo.

Behl claimed to have a diplomatic car pool, with contacts in the German Embassy from where he would get the cars at a discount ranging between 20% and30%. He reportedly promised to arrange a Honda City, a BMW, two XUV 500 cars, one Ford Eco Sport, one Skoda Octavia and one I-20 car for Berry and his three other friends.

“The four men paid Behl a token money of Rs 1 lakh and another sum of Rs 24.60 lakh through RTGS in his various bank accounts. Behl even sent them a confirmation mail regarding the booking of the cars and demanded more money from them. However, no cars were provided. When the four men demanded that their money be returned, Behl issued them post-dated cheques that bounced. He began to ignore their phone calls and went underground,” DCP south, Ishwar Singh said.

The police then conducted raids and kept a close watch at his office in Mahipalpur. On Friday, the police got a tip-off about Behl coming to his office, following which ar aid was conducted .“Behl saw the police team waiting for him and he managed to escape. The police chased his car on the Mehrauli-Mahipalpur Road and Behl was arrested,” Singh said.