Delhi cops nab runaway bride who duped bank

Delhi: Delhi police personnel nabbed a 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.

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"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.