Sreya Kanugula
IPS officer Arvind Sen who had previously deserted his post and evaded the police had surrendered himself in front of a Lucknow court with regards to a case of him duping a businessman from Madhya Pradesh.
He was remanded into judicial custody by the court until February 9th after his surrender on 27th January evening.
The man was about to retire and leave the police force on January 31, 2021.
On the 6th of January, the police had made a reward announcement of Rs. 50,000 on any information that would lead to the impending arrest of Mr. Arvind Sen, a suspended deputy inspector general who was evading them since the mention of his name in a multi-crore worth tender scam in the department of state animal husbandry.
The IPS officer from the batch of 2013, was stated as a “proclaimed offender” by one of the courts in Lucknow in the month of December 2020.
Mr. Sen was a Faizabad resident from Uttar Pradesh who had been suspended officially by the UP government right after his name popped up in an investigation from the alleged duping of Mr. Manjeet Singh Bhatia, a businessman from Madhya Pradesh.
In the month of June 2020, an FIR had been lodged by Mr. Bhatia with the Hazratganj police station against 12 accused and some of their unidentified accomplices in a case of duping him.
He claimed that they had duped him out of Rs. 9.72 crores by pretending to float a tender under the title of the Uttar Pradesh Animal Husbandry Department in between the years’ March 2017 to 2018.
Over 13 people were arrested by the police in this case, journalists included, on the allegation of duping Mr. Bhatia.
It was alleged that Mr. Sen had asked Mr. Bhatia to come to his office via call in the year 2019 and had threatened the man with severe consequences for continuing to pursue his lodged complaint of the scam.
Mr. Sen was then posted as the Superintendent of Police under the Crime Branch Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID).