Gang of fake Tax men nabbed
HYDERABAD: The officials at the Saroornagar Central Crime Station (CCS) on Saturday arrested a seven-member gang of pseudo Income Tax officers who were involved in the theft at a businessman's house in September.
Police have seized 40 tola gold, 90 tola silver ornaments and `2.30 lakh in cash, all totaling around Rs 15 lakh.
On September 19 this year, some people posing as I-T officials had called at Akurathi Srinivas Rao's home at Sharada Nagar, Vanasthalipuram. In the pretext of a raid, they had detained the family members in a bedroom, while bagging all valuables from the house and taking them away in the pretext of seizing it.
They had then told Rao to collect the valuables from the income tax office after producing the proper bills and account statements. While leaving, one of the men had given Rao a fabricated letterhead of the income tax department along with a Telugu computer report.
The CCS officials have cracked the case three months later with the arrest of the seven members - Nakka Raghu Kumar (50), a farmer and resident of Ilavaram village in Guntur district; Garikapati Naga Chiranjeevi Rao alias Naga Babu (33), an LIC agent and resident of Cherkupally in Guntur; Katikala Vivekanand alias Nani (30), an unemployed resident of Housing Board colony in Guntur town; Madda Raja Ranjith Kumar (32), an unemployed resident of Brahamanwadi, Begumpet; Tiriveeri Madhu Babu (28), an unemployed resident of Brahamanwadi, Begumpet; Yedavelli Venkata Subramanya Ravi Kiran (35), a resident of Kakatiyanagar, Neredmet; and Gali Satyanarayana (62), a night watchman and resident of Pandurangapet in Tenali.
Nakka Raghu Kumar belongs to same village as that of Srinivas Rao, who runs a transport business at Autonagar, Vanasthalipuram. Cyberabad police commissioner Ch Dwaraka Tirumala Rao said Raghu Kumar was cultivating five acres of agricultural land owned by Rao and leased out to him.
It was in this way that the accused came to know of Rao possessing huge wealth and gold ornaments in his house at Vanasthalipuram.
He then hatched the fake I-T official plan to rob Rao and took the help of Naga Chiranjeevi Rao, an LIC agent at Ilavaram village, to prepare a Telugu report/letter mentioning all of the victim's properties,' the police commissioner said.
News Posted: 23 December, 2012
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