New Delhi: A conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar allegedly extorted Rs 200 Cr by carrying out an extortion racket from inside Rohini jail. According to the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) Chandrasekhar, along with two of his associates who worked for him from outside the prison, had extorted the amount from a businessman's wife (Aditi Singh) on the pretext of freeing her husband Shivendra Singh. EOW of Delhi Police had arrested Singh, a former promoter of Ranbaxy, Fortis and Religare Enterprises, along with his brother Malvinder Mohan Singh in October 2019, for alleged financial irregularities.
According sources, Shivendra's wife Aditi Singh had received several calls in the last few months from a man posing as an officer in the Ministry of Home Affairs and Enforcement Directorate. He told Aditi Singh that he would get her husband released and took Rs 200 Cr from her. Aditi on having suspected foul-play, informed the entire matter to an officer of the Enforcement Directorate. The ED officer apprised Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana about the call to Aditi Singh following which an investigation was launched. During the course of investigation the police traced the call to a high profile criminal Sukesh Chandrashekhar, who was lodged in the Rohini Jail and recovered two smartphones from him.
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Chandrashekar was arrested in 2017 by the police. He is accused in 20 cases and has secured bail in 17 of them. A chargesheet was filed by the police before the trial court in the case on July 14, 2017, alleging that Dhinakaran and Chandrashekar had conspired to bribe EC officials to get the 'two leaves' symbol for the AIADMK. Chandrashekar was arrested for allegedly taking money from Dhinakaran to bribe EC officials to get the AIADMK 'two leaves' symbol for the Sasikala faction in a by-election to the RK Nagar Assembly seat in Tamil Nadu.
The police have also included charges of forgery for the purpose of cheating, using forged documents as genuine, possessing a forged document, intending to use it as genuine and criminal conspiracy.
