How cops caught the runaway bride

Delhi police personnel nabbed the woman, who had been evading them for nine years after being accused of cheating a bank, from outside her wedding venue

Shalu Thukral, her brother, father and sister-in-law had been named in a case lodged by Oriental Bank of Commerce, OBC, Naraina branch. "In 2006, they had floated a company and had taken an amount of Rs 16 lakh overdraft, but they allegedly didn't pay it back," the police officer stated.

Another senior EOW police officer, on condition of anonymity, confirmed the incident and said: "We had been searching for her and her brother for the past several years as they had escaped with government money and there was a debt of about Rs five lakh on her. Therefore, we couldn't have let them go this time."

Their case was being investigated by the Criminal Breach of Trust (CBT) branch of Delhi police's Economic Offences Wing, with its office in Malviya Nagar. "We had laid a trap as a contingency measure since we expected that she may attempt to run away from her wedding.

And that's exactly what happened and we caught her when she was trying to escape from outside the Gurdwara," one of the investigating officers said. The officer said that she was produced before a court where a settlement was sought as they paid the money to the bank.

"They could have done that earlier too but they didn't and we had to drop by at her wedding," cops said. Initially the case was handed to the local cops at Naraina police station, the area where the bank was located and the matter was later transferred to the EOW.

Easy come, easy go

Following a court order, Delhi police Economic Offences Wing (EOW) have started investigating a multi-crore-investment scam by a Delhi-based company, which allegedly duped several small-time investors through purchase of shares in their up-coming project. According to court sources, till date, the police have not filed any status report in the matter and no arrest has been made in the case.
The court in its order noted that initially police had denied registering a criminal case in the matter. Vikas Promoters Private Limited, its directors Nand Kishore Garg, Pankaj Arora, Asha Garg and Mohan Kumar Garg are being probed in the connection after Metropolitan Magistrate Jitender Mishra ordered registration of an FIR against them on August 20. The order was passed on a compliant filed by an investor, Atul Mahajan, who claimed that he had lost Rs 1.12 crore, as the company defrauded by forging the balance sheet and annual returns shown to him