Man gets 5-yr jail for cheating nri, to compensate
Wednesday, 14/12/2011
http://www.asianage.com/delhi/man-gets-5-yr-jail-cheating-nri-compensate-823?
A city court sent a senior citizen to jail for five years for cheating an NRI by giving him a fabricated bank draft of a non-existing branch of a US bank.
Vijay Khanna, 65, was held guilty for forgery, using counterfeit currency, cheating and conspiracy in the 17-year- old case lodged by B.S. Chhabra, which the CBI had probed.
Besides the jail term, the court also imposed a fine of `35,000 on Khanna, a resident of Gurgaon, and directed him to pay compensation of `5 lakhs to Chhabra.
“Due to forged and fabricated demand draft of $25,000 besides a loss of `5 lakhs, `3.12 lakhs were also obtained from Chhabra, which were never returned. Accordingly, compensation to the tune of `5 lakhs is also imposed upon the convict payable to Chhabra,” additional sessions judge Virender Kumar Goyal said.
Chhabra, who had filed a complaint with the crime branch of Delhi police in April 1994, told the court that in October 1992, he attended an NRI conference here where he met N.K. Jain, who introduced himself as an NRI consultant and after said that he was setting up consultancies and offered him a 50 per cent share in the venture.
The complainant said that Jain and his son asked him for a loan of `5 lakhs for business purpose and offered to give a note against the same after which he extended the loan in cash to Jain, who died during the pendency of the case.
