Sonam Kapoor’s father-in-law Harish Ahuja’s firm cheated over Rs 27 crore; 10 arrested by Faridabad police

Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor’s father-in-law Harish Ahuja’s export-import firm has been duped of over Rs 27 crore in novel cyber fraud. Faridabad police on Friday said the tricksters had been cheating Harish's Faridabad-based firm, Shahi Export Factory, by misappropriating the Rebate of State and Central Taxes and Levies ROSCTL licenses, meant for his firm, on the basis of his forged Digital Signature Certificate and encashing them.

Faridabad Deputy Commissioner of Police (Headquarters) Nitish Agarwal stated that the accused also included former clerks and employees of the Directorate General of Foreign Trade who are well aware of the technicalities of the authority. ROSCTL license is an export incentive in the form of transferable and sellable duty credit scrips offered on the basis of the FOB value of the export. The reports suggested that the accused had secured around 154 ROSCTL licenses which were meant for Ahuja’s firm and were worth Rs 27.61 crore.

It was also reported that the 10 accused were arrested from Delhi, Chennai, Karnataka, Pune, and other parts of the country. The DCP recognized the arrested accused as Delhi residents Manoj Rana, Manish Kumar, Praveen Kumar, Lalit Kumar Jain, and Manish Kumar Moga moreover Bhusan Kishan Thakur of Mumbai and Suresh Kumar Jain of Chennai. Two others arrested within the rip-off have been recognized as Ganesh Parsuram of Raichur in Karnataka, Rahul Raghunath of Raigad, and Santosh Sitaram of Pune.