Three booked in a fake sting operation on MPs

NI Wire

New Delhi

Tue, 11 Sep 2007: 

Sep 11: After disclosing a fake sting operation against alleged Delhi school teacher Uma Khurana, another fake sting operation has been unmasked on Sunday afternoon September 09 in the Capital. Delhi Police has booked three persons conducting the alleged fake stingperation against three MPs to blackmail them.

Delhi police has informed to media that three persons have been identified as the accused of conducting fake sting operation against 3 MPs of Jharkhand include Congress MP Rameshwar Oraon and Sushila Kirkitta. On the complaint of Rameshwar Oraon, police caught two of them Pankaj Gupta and Ratandeep Gupta red handed while their leader Sanjay Tiwari managed to escape from there. All of three are residents of east Delhi and one of them, Sanjay Gupta has already done a sting operation for a leading private channel, police confirmed.

According to Rameshwar Oraon, Sanjay Tiwari had contacted him on phone by introducing himself as a secretary to Tribal Affairs Minister PR Kyndiah and asked him talk on a deal of Rs 18 crore project. He offered him to provide 5 percent commission (worth Rs. Five lakh, initially Rs 5,000 and rest of the money later) of the deal if he would sign on the deal.

Oraon confirmed to the tribal minister regarding the concerned person and the deal and found that there was another person present with the same name as a secretary of tribal minister, but had no knowledge about any sort of deal, the Minister confirmed. Tribal Minister had confronted his secretary before the Oraon. The secretary told that he never made a call to him. On the notion, Oraon invited alleged Sanjay Tiwari to his MP House situated in the North Avenue to discuss about the deal who called him again on Saturday, 08. He informed the police to trap them.

Around 12:30 pm on Sunday, September 09, three men entered the MP’s house and started talking to them regarding the deal. “They were persuading me to sign on some papers. When I asked them to explain me the deal, they replied inarticulately”, said Oraon.

“The gang was allegedly filming the conversation using secret cameras when police in civil dress caught the trio red handed but Tiwari managed to escape”, said police. “The team started searching their baggage and their clothes and found a hidden camera and some notepads inside their bags”, informed police.

“They began to threaten that they have a tie-up with Aaj Tak and were conducting a sting operation and if I paid them some money to them, they won’t air the operation” said Oraon.

The police have recovered their visiting cards in which Sanjay Tiwari has been printed as Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editors of Ujalanews.com, police informed. “We have taken the accused in two days’ police custody and booked the three on charges of cheating and impersonation,” said a senior police officer.