Racket falsely promising governorship, Rajya Sabha seats for Rs 100 crore busted: CBI

New Delhi, July 25

The CBI has registered an FIR after unravelling a multi-state racket of imposters, who tried to cheat people of Rs 100 crore by falsely promising seats in Rajya Sabha and governorship, officials said.

Officials said that after registering an FIR against the accused, the CBI sleuths recently conducted searches on their premises.

In its FIR, a copy of which is with The Tribune, the CBI has named Kamalakar Premkumar Bandgar of Maharashtra’s Latur, Ravindra Vithal Naik of Karnataka’s Belgaum, and Delhi-NCR-based Mahendra Pal Arora, Abhishek Boera and Mohammed Aijaz Khan in the case, they said.

In the FIR, the CBI said, “They operated with the sole motive of cheating people by falsely assuring them arrangement of seats in Rajya Sabha, appointment as Governor, appointment as chairmen in government-run organisations under the central government ministries and departments against huge pecuniary consideration.”

The case was registered after a source informed the CBI that Abhishek Boera, in pursuant to the conspiracy “interacts with Karmalakar Premkumar Bandgar and discusses as to how the works may be done through the latter’s connections with highly placed government officials”.

“The source has further said that Kamalakar Premkumar Bandgar in conspiracy with Abhishek Boera, Mahendra Pal Arora, Mohd Aijaz Khan, Ravindra Vithal Naik and unidentified others are making efforts to cheat people in the name of assuring them of candidature for Rajya Sabha, against huge consideration of Rs 100 crore,” the FIR read.

It is also alleged that Bandgar was posing as a CBI officer and flaunting his “connections” with highly placed officials and had asked Boera, Arora, Khan and Naik to bring any sort of work that he could fix in lieu of payment of huge illegal gratification.

They conspired with “the sole motive of cheating people by falsely assuring them arrangement of seats in Rajya Sabha, appointment as governor, appointment as chairman in different government-run organisations under central government ministries and departments against huge pecuniary consideration,” the FIR alleged.