MD of Silver Oaks Hospital, wife booked for Rs 26-crore fraud for duping an NRI

Mohali, June 13
 The Delhi Police has booked the managing director of Silver Oaks Hospital, Phase IX, Mohali, Dr Akhil Bhargav, his wife Dr Manjari Bhargav and five others for allegedly duping an NRI of Rs 26 crore. The NRI is the chairman of a US-based firm.

The other accused have been identified as Rajnish Rametra, Surinder Rametra, Vijay Rametra, Amardeep Singh Sidhu and HS Cheema.

A case under Sections 420, 406, 468, 471 and 120-B of the IPC has been registered at the economic offences wing of the Delhi Police against the accused following a complaint by Dr Aditya Khindaria, chairman and director of Kare Partners India Private Limited.

Dr Akhil Bhargava said last year they had lodged a complaint against the US-based firm. “The case is pending with the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Company Law Board and Arbitrator. The company wants to buy shares but is not ready to shell out money. It is an arm twisting tactics to create pressure on us,” said Dr Bhargava.

In his complaint, Dr Khindaria said he had paid Rs 26.20 crore to the Bhargava couple and others for 63,03,281 shares, which were equivalent to 51 per cent of the paid up share capital then.

“My company had started negotiations with the doctor couple in 2011 for acquiring 100 per cent shareholding in Kamesh Bhargava Hospitals and Research Centre Private Limited (Silver Oaks Hospital) for about Rs 52 crore. The couple signed the contract on the behalf of other persons, the minority shareholders, with us. We had transferred Rs 26.20 crore in their account to acquire 51 per cent shares and signed the transaction documents. As these persons (the accused) did not fulfil their commitments as agreed in the documents, we gave them more time, but to no avail,” alleged Dr Khindaria in the FIR.

He alleged that the accused forged some important documents, including the annual returns and filing of the share holding patterns, which resulted in reducing the shareholding pattern of Kare Partners from 51 per cent to 35.92 per cent.

“With this, we have been cheated of 18,63,357 shares of the company which is equivalent to 15 per cent of the paid up equity,” alleged Dr Khindaria, while claiming that one of the accused had also threatened him.

Singer Nachattar Gill booked for rape

Ludhiana, June 13
Noted Punjabi pop singer Nachattar Gill and three others have been booked for allegedly raping and duping an aspiring model.

The city police claimed that the accused develpoed physical ties with the girl on the pretext of helping her become a top model and sending her abroad. They have been booked under Sections 376, 420, 506 and 120-B of the IPC and the IT Act 2000, for rape, fraud and criminal conspiracy.

Gurveer Singh Station House officer (SHO), PAU police station, said the accused were booked last night following a thorough investigation by senior officers.

Questions are being asked at the outgoing Commissioner of Police, Ishwar Singh, ordering an FIR against the singer on his last day in office.

The girl, a resident of Haibowal, told the police that the singer took her to a hotel in Chandigarh, where he gave her a drink laced with sedatives and took objectionable pictures of her. She alleged that the three other accused raped her in a similar fashion at a hotel in Singapore.

The matter first came to light in February when the victim approached the Commissioner of Police and the latter marked an inquiry into the case. At first Additional DCP- I Nilamberi Jagdale and ACP- West Gurpreet Kaur Purewal were asked to investigat the case. The inquiry was later shifted to ACP-North J Elanchezhian.

Gill allegedly told the investigating officers that a friend of the aspiring model was pressuring him into settling the issue by paying him Rs 1 crore. The girl alleged that she came in contact with the pop singer during a beauty pageant at Jalandhar in 2006 where Gill was one of the judges. She was adjudged the first runners-up at the pageant.

She claimed that during the function they exchanged mobile numbers. The two started talking to each other frequently and soon their friendship turned intimate. The girl met the singer at hotels in Phillaur and Ludhiana.

The girl said her ties with the singer turned sour after she asked him why she was not being featured in his music albums. She alleged that city residents Charandeep Singh of Hambra Road and Jagdeep Singh and Raja of Waddi Haibowal took advantage of her plight.They took Rs 20 lakh from her parents promising to send her abroad.

She claimed that when they were in Singapore, Raja and Jagdeep raped her and also made an MMS.

She alleged Charandeep established ties with her on the pretext of helping her seek legal action against those