The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday arrested an accused who was absconding for 20 years in a bank fraud case.
He was produced before a local court, where he was remanded till August 16. The accused was declared dead by a court here a few years ago.
The CBI said on Monday that accused V. Chalapathi Rao changed his identity and location frequently. He changed his mobile number about 10 times.
In May 2002, the CBI had registered a case against Rao for allegedly cheating the bank of Rs 50 lakh. Rao was a computer operator at the Chandulal Biradari branch of the State Bank of India in Hyderabad.
He was dodging the CBI since 2004
The CBI had filed two chargesheets on December 31, 2004. The accused was missing since 2004. The wife is also an accused in the case. She had filed a complaint with the Hyderabad police.
He had also moved a civil court to declare Rao dead seven years after his disappearance. The court had then passed an order declaring him dead.
Identity and location changed repeatedly
The accused got married to a woman in Salem in 2007 by posing as M. Vineeth Kumar. The CBI learnt from his second wife that he was in touch with his son.
However, in 2014, he left Salem without informing anyone and reached Bhopal where he worked as a loan recovery agent. After this, he again went to Rudrapur in Uttarakhand. When the CBI team reached Rudrapur, it was found that he had absconded in 2016.
Fraud was also done in Ferrari
In the year 2016, he went to an ashram in Verul village of Aurangabad. His name there was Swami Vidhitatmanand Tirtha. In December 2021, he committed a fraud of about 70 lakhs.
Then he went to Bharatpur in Rajasthan and stayed there till July 8 this year. After this, he went to Tirunelveli.
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