Terror suspect wanted for R2.2 lakh fraud in Hoshiarpur

HOSHIARPUR: Parvez Iqbal Tak, arrested recently by the Jammu and Kashmir police for his alleged links with terror outfits, is also wanted by the Hoshiarpur police in a fraud case. He had conned a Hoshiarpur resident of Rs 2.20 lakh in 2010 and an FIR was lodged in the city police station. He was declared a proclaimed offender on December 19, 2011.

Tak had come into contact with Gurdial Singh (84), a resident of Krishna Nagar, through a common friend Ashok Kumar, a native of district Amb in Himachal Pradesh.

“Tak came to my residence for the first time in the first week of April 2010, along with one Sher Khan. Several visits followed. He told me that he had had a narrow escape from terrorists and wanted to set up a hospital in his village Bounjwa in Kishtwar,” said Gurdial Singh.

“He told me that health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had agreed to give him a grant for his project, but the minister’s PA wanted a cut of Rs 1 lakh. I gave him the money, which he returned after two days. In the first week of May 2010, Tak told me on telephone that two cheques worth Rs 90 lakh were ready for the hospital, but he would have to pay Rs 2.20 lakh to Azad’s PA,” Gurdial added.

He said Tak approached him May 8, 2010, and requested him to give Rs 2.20 lakh on the con- dition that it would be returned soon. He said he obliged Tak, but sent his driver with him to Delhi to bring the cash back, expecting Tak to encash the Rs 90 lakh and return his money.

“Tak asked my driver to wait outside the Nirman Bhawan and never returned,” Gurdial alleged.

He said that he later contacted the health minister’s PA, who told him that he had never been in touch with a man named Tak.

The city police then lodged an FIR against Tak on July 26, 2010 under section 420 of the IPC, (Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property). HT has a copy of the FIR.

His arrest has given hope to Gurdial Singh that his money might be recovered.