Income Tax seized 52 kg of gold and Rs 11 crore from the car of Chetan Gaur, a friend of former transport department constable Saurabh Sharma. Cash has been recovered. This vehicle had passed in front of Saurabh Sharma’s house at around 2 pm on 19th December. At that time Saurabh and Chetan were in Gaur’s house.
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On whose request did the vehicle reach the farm house? This mystery remains intact, but the information about the car that left Saurabh Sharma’s house was received by the police and Income Tax Department. Ratibad police station and Income Tax team reached the vehicle after a gap of half an hour.
Here a deal was made between the two. If any dead body is found in the car, further action will be taken by the police and if any cash is found then the Income Tax Department will look into it. The police formally wrote that the Income Tax team would search the vehicle.
According to a senior police officer, the police was aware that the vehicle was filled with cash, hence the police had written Income Tax in the return for action. Here, the action started and on the other hand, Chetan Singh Gaur’s wife reached Ratibad police station alone at 2 o’clock in the night.
He told that the driver has taken away his car and is not picking up the phone. But by then the police had recovered cash and gold from the vehicle. Read sequentially what happened that evening from 7 o’clock to 12 midnight? How that abandoned vehicle started revealing the truth about the dark exploits of former transport department constable Saurabh Sharma..
On December 19, the Income Tax Department had found gold and cash from a deserted vehicle parked at a farm house in Ratibad.
Police received information at 7 pm
On December 19, Ratibad police station was bustling with activity as usual. It will be 7 o’clock in the evening. Suddenly the phone rang. The person in front said – Sir, a car has arrived at a farm house in the forest of Mendori some time ago. Crores of rupees are kept in it. There is gold also.
The caller told that two vehicles had come here. There were 5 people in it. After parking one car, they left in another car. Every now and then some people are coming here and seeing that car.
At 7.30 pm two constables went to verify
After receiving information on the wireless set, the police team left for that farm house. When we reached the spot, an Innova vehicle with number MP07BA0050 was standing there. RTO symbol was also installed on that vehicle. When the police collected information from the people nearby, they came to know that this car had been brought today itself.
People told that there is something suspicious in it, because ever since this car was brought, some people have come here every now and then to see it. Policemen also became suspicious. He informed the police station. Now it was confirmed that there was something suspicious in that vehicle.
8.15 pm Sub Inspector left to see the car
When the information was received at the police station, Sub Inspector of Ratibad police left the police station at 8.15 to see the suspicious car. They reached there at 8.30. The Sub Inspector was searching for the address of the owner of that vehicle. They also became convinced that some suspicious bags were kept in this vehicle.
Income tax team reached the spot at 9 pm
The police was collecting information about that vehicle, meanwhile Income Tax officials arrived. Now the question was who would search the vehicle first? Income Tax did not have a search warrant till then. Income tax officials started the process of search warrant.
An agreement was reached between the police and the IT team. Income Tax officials said that the police should write to them that they are handing over this vehicle to Income Tax for further action. The Police Inspector duly gave an official letter to Income Tax, in which it was said that this car is being handed over to Income Tax for further action.
After this the vehicle was opened only with the help of the police. The police news turned out to be correct. Cash was found in this vehicle. A senior police officer says that the informer’s information about cash in the vehicle was confirmed. It was verified. For this reason Income Tax was asked to take action.
Cash and gold recovered from the car by 11.00 pm
Income tax officials searched this vehicle for an hour. From the trunk of the car to the front seat, there were bags filled with notes. Gold biscuits were also kept. Income Tax called a note counting machine. The count of notes reached Rs 11 crore. 52 kg gold was also found.
It was also primarily tested whether it was gold or something else. But, after some time it was also confirmed. However, the officer refused to say how he confirmed the gold.
Chetan’s wife reached Ratibad police station at 2 o’clock in the night.
While the police and Income Tax officials were counting the cash found from that Innova car in Mendori, the wife of Saurabh’s friend Chetan reached Ratibad police station. He told that the driver has taken away his car and he is not picking up the phone. There was less staff at night. The rest of the police station staff were not aware that cash and gold had been recovered from a car in their area.
The woman remained sitting in the police station for some time. But when the policemen deployed on night duty got information about such a car, they sent the woman away from the police station. However, by then the police had understood the whole story. Sources say that during this time the police had also received calls from some people. But TI and other officials are denying this.
Police officials have also confirmed that Chetan’s wife had come with the complaint. After the action, the Income Tax handed over the empty vehicle to the police the next day. Then this vehicle was taken to Ratibad police station. It is still standing in the police station.
The vehicle had left Saurabh Sharma’s house at 2 pm on December 19. At that time the Lokayukta proceedings were going on.
Lokayukta’s team was at Saurabh’s home and office, then how did the vehicle pass?
This question was the most discussed in this raid. But after checking the CCTV cameras, it was found that this car was not in the house where the Lokayukta teams were searching. Lokayukta teams were in house numbers E-7/78 and E-7/657 of Arera Colony. Saurabh’s mother Uma and her grandson were in the house. The second house was Saurabh’s office. In which the office of Jaipuria School was also functioning.
But, there was another house near this house, E 7/98, which Saurabh had recently purchased in his mother’s name. Renovation work was going on in that house. This car was parked in the same house.
This car had left this house on the same afternoon when the Lokayukta proceedings were going on. This car was also seen passing in front of Shahpura and Bansal Hospital. After this, via Kaliyasot, the car reached the farm house in Mendori, which has been taken in the name of Vinay Aswani. Vinay is the son-in-law of Saurabh’s aunt and is close to Saurabh.
The house which was abandoned by the Lokayukta team. On December 27, ED raided the same house and seized documents related to the property.
Saurabh had access to cameras, he was watching everything
Sources associated with Saurabh say that he was alert about the actions of the investigating agencies. Saurabh was watching the Lokayukta raid on his mobile with the help of CCTV cameras. As soon as the Lokayukta team reached his house and office at 7 am on 19 December.
At the same time, with the help of his associates, he asked the car parked in E 7/98 to be removed from there. It is a matter of investigation whether the car was already filled with cash or whether the cash and money were kept in the same new house? This is the reason why ED also searched the house from where this car had come out.
After 8 hours of searching, ED has found some documents from here also. On the Lokayukta raid, questions were also raised as to why no team went to this new house located near his house?
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