Fake ex-minister, aides dupe bizman of ₹6 cr

MUMBAI: Five people attempted to pull off an audacious fraud, posing as senior government officials and even a former minister, to defraud a businessman of %6 crore.

- Manish Kumar Pathak

They pretended to offer the businessman a government contract to supply 12,000 ICU beds to government hospitals — but a faked Government Resolution (GR) gave the game away.

Two of the accused posed as officers on special duty (OSDs) of ministers, while one claimed to be a former minister. They took ₹6 crore upfront to secure the fictitious contract.

The complainant is Taufail Khan, 45, proprietor of a Vidyav-ihar-based company called Novel Designer Display System Private Limited, which manufactures furniture. One of the suspects, Nitin Gupta, had worked for Khan as a consultant and promised to introduce him to senior government officials to bag a massive contract.