The Delhi Police arrested the accused, who was hiding in the Mohan Garden area. (Representational)
Delhi Police today arrested a doctor-turned-fraudster, who was evading capture and has seven cases registered against him for cheating several people by making false promises.
Special Staff of North West District arrested the accused, identified as Dr Mohd Sabir Khan, age 58, a resident of Khanpur, Delhi. He used to operate a privately owned clinic in the Khanpur area.
From 2015-17, two criminal cases and five complaint cases were filed by the victims against him in the Police Station of Saket and Neb Sarai of South District as well as in the District Court. The court proclaimed him an offender in four out of the seven cases registered against him, the police said.
According to the police FIR, the accused had cheated a foreign national lady for an amount of $8,000 on the pretext of giving his house on lease to her but did not return her money. In another case, he prepared forged documents of a property which was taken by him on rent and claimed himself the owner of the property. Further, he broke the locks of two shops and trespassed into the same.
Acting on an input, the police raided a premise in the Mohan Garden area of Uttam Nagar, Delhi where Mohd Sabir Khan was hiding for the last four years, and apprehended the accused.
During interrogation, the accused told the police that in 2014 he was sent to jail for an offence and after being released out on bail, he adopted the modus operandi of cheating/forgery and started duping people who were acquainted with him through false promises.
Further investigation is underway.
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