Trader files fake Rs 18 lakh robbery complaint, held

Indore: An Indore-based trader reeling under debt and his two friends have been arrested for lodging a fake complaint stating that he was robbed of Rs 18 lakh. He told police that he was returning with the cash from Shajapur in his car when he was robbed.

Complainant Rizwan Razzak and his friend Rajpal and Hemant Agnihotri have been arrested.

When the complainant and his friend were questioned, their statements did not match which raised suspicion following which SP Pankaj Shrivastav asked the police officials to investigate further.

Police had received information that unidentified men robbed iron trader Rizwan Razzak was robbed of Rs 18 lakh at Lalghati bypass, acting on which a team was sent to the spot.

Rizwan had said that a black SUV had accosted them in the path and the accused made away with the bag at gunpoint. When CCTV footage was checked, it was found that no black SUV had followed the complainant.

Rizwan and Rajpal were questioned separately in which suspicious facts came forward.

Police said that Rizwan had given the cash he brought from Rajgarh to his friend Hemant at Maksi before approaching police.

The accused revealed that he was reeling under debt and thus hatched the plan.

SP Shrivastav said that a case has been registered.