New Delhi: A 31-year-old pimp, who was also
allegedly involved in a number of cases of vehicle theft and
cheating by using fake demand drafts to buy luxury cars, was
arrested in the national capital, police said Sunday.
Ankit Dhir was arrested a week ago from near AIIMS in
south Delhi following an input that he will pass through the
area.
Dhir, who was involved in flesh trade for a long time,
had been arrested several times along with girls in connection
with prostitution cases.
A Mercedes E-class, a Honda Civic, a Skoda Laura and a
Tata Safari, all luxury cars which he bought allegedly using
fake demand drafts, were recovered.
The arrest came following investigations into several
cases of a buyer giving fake demand drafts to owners of
high-end cars.
During interrogation, Dhir revealed that earlier he was
arrested in January 2009 at Sahibabad link road police station
while he was in possession of a Honda Civic car which was
stolen from Paschim Vihar in Delhi.
After he was released from jail, he started living in
Sushant Lok, Gurgaon and he again started preparing false
demand drafts for fraudulently gaining luxury vehicles, police
said.
They said Dhir used to purchase a new sim card on fake
identity as well as a new mobile handset before buying a
vehicle through fraudulent means. After committing the crime,
he used to thrash the sim card and mobile phone so that no one
tracks his movements.
By using this method, he succeeded in getting possession
of 5-6 vehicles as disclosed by him, police said.
Police got a four-day remand and on his confession, they
recovered a Honda civic car, which was possessed illegally by
him from Gurgaon.
"He had also disclosed about a Skoda Laura and a Mercedes
car, which were abandoned by him in Noida and Etawha
district," police said.
Dhir, who was born in Faridabad, was residing at Karol
Bagh. His father is a businessman and has his own business of
computers.
During his college days in Delhi, he came into contact
with one Rajeev Virmani in 2000 who was a notorious pimp,
police claimed and added that he started working with him.
He formed his own gang and started giving advertisement
in daily newspapers for providing escort service and in 2003
he was arrested in Connaught place with one of his associates
and two girls.
"After released from jail he became more desperate and
reorganised his group again and started flash trading from
farm houses. He hired more than fifty girls for prostitution
and adopted a unique method for supply of the girls. He
purchased some wireless set and setup his own network," police
said.
He got enmity with one Sanjay Gupta, a known name in the
trade, who was murdered by one Bobby due to rivalry in the
trade, police said.
After this incident bobby and his associates were
arrested by police and Sanjay's "so-called" wife Ritika came
into contact with Ankit Dhir and both started prostitution and
shifted their base to Noida, police claimed.
After getting released from jail, he changed the trade
and started making false demand drafts by scanning the
original draft which he procured from the bank.
Police said he then scanned the draft and fill whatever
amount he wanted and gave the same to innocent persons from
whom he purchased luxury cars and other items.
In the recent past, several cases were reported all over
Delhi and NCR that after seeing advertisement of "for sale of
vehicle" in leading news papers buyers contact the owner of
the vehicle through cell phone and after negotiations when
deal is settled the buyer gives a demand draft and take away
the luxurious cars.
In all the cases, fake draft happened to be that of State
Bank of India and person involved in all incidents were also
found to be the same man, police said.
PTI
First Published: Sunday, March 21, 2010, 20:59