MARGAO: A Delhi-based businessman, who was named an accused in a case of
cheating
and criminal breach of trust registered at the Margao town police station in September 2019, was arrested from Benaulim after a two-year long manhunt.
A Vasco-based businessman Sanjay Fatji had lodged a complaint with the Margao town police that two persons, Salman Ahmed Rafiq Shaikh, a resident of New Delhi who was then staying at Benaulim, and Ravi Yadav of Thane, Maharashtra, induced him into entrusting his vehicle to them for employing it for passenger transport business at a monthly payment of Rs 25,000.
However, police said, the accused paid the complainant for a few months and later disappeared with the vehicle while also not clearing his dues amounting to nearly Rs 3 lakh. An offence was registered against the accused under provisions of the Indian Penal Code.
“The accused was absconding from the day of the registration of offence and was shifting his location from time to time, thus evading arrest,” South Goa SP Pankaj Kumar Singh said.