Chandigarh, July 21
Three years after registering a case against directors of International Mega Food Park Ltd, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a closure report in the case.
Sukhdev Singh Special, Judicial Magistrate, CBI, Chandigarh, has issued a notice to the complainant for August 4 for filing reply. Public Prosecutor Narender Singh has filed the closure report.
On June 30, 2019, the CBI had registered a case under Sections 420 (cheating), 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 469 (forgery for purpose of harming reputation) of the IPC against Sukhinder, his wife and son for allegedly orchestrating a bank fraud of Rs 33 crore.
The FIR was registered on the complaint of Pankaj Kumar Sahu, Deputy General Manager, Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), Chandigarh, on June 30, 2019.
The CBI had carried out nationwide searches in many cities related to the alleged scam. The fraud involved forging bills of industrial machinery for which the company had taken a loan of Rs 33 crore from the SIDBI in 2011 and 2014.
It is alleged the loans were not repaid and declared as non-performing assets in June 2017. As per the complaint, when the discrepancies were noticed, the bank carried out a forensic audit of the borrower company.
The SIDBI in the complaint said the borrower in collusion with…
