Two arrested for duping investors of more than ₹30 cr

NEW DELHI: A couple who are professional con artists and have scammed several persons and financial institutions of at least ₹30 crore were arrested by Delhi police on Sunday from their hideout in Ghaziabad, the police said.

Vinod Bansal, 57, and his 56-year-old wife, Preeti Bansal, have been together booked in 20 cases of cheating registered across India. They had been declared proclaimed offenders in half of them by courts in Delhi, Haryana and Punjab, said Vijay Kumar, deputy commissioner of police (south).

“Three of the cases in which the couple was wanted were registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation,” said the DCP.

The Delhi Police had been pursuing the couple because they were proclaimed offenders in a case registered by the city police’s economic offences wing.

“A team from Kotla Mubarakpur police station was behind proclaimed offenders. We visited all the addresses we had of the couple and interrogated many people who knew them. Our efforts helped us get the exact address of the couple, but our police team in plainclothes visited the house to realize they had already fled,” said the DCP.

The couple was finally caught from their hideout in Surya Vihar in Ghaziabad on Sunday.