Two more persons held in duping case of comedian Kapil Sharma
DC Designs CEO Kanchan Chhabria and the company s marketing and sales head Nihal Bajaj were arrested in the case
The city crime branch on Wednesday arrested two more persons in connections with cheating case of comedian Kapil Sharma. The crime branch has already arrested top car designer Dilip Chhabria (DC) in the case.
On Wednesday they arrested DC Designs CEO Kanchan Chhabria and the company s marketing and sales head Nihal Bajaj in the case.
In the second week of January, an offence of cheating was registered by the Versova Police on the complaint of Sharma. In his complaint Sharma alleged that Dilip Chhabria allegedly duped him to the tune of Rs 5.7 crore. The money was allegedly accepted as a payment for a vanity van which is yet to be delivered to Sharma, he said in the complaint.
We are in the process of registering an offense of cheating and criminal misappropriation into the allegations and further probe will be conducted by Criminal Investigation Unit (CIU) on the Mumbai crime branch, said Milind Bharambe, Joint Commissioner of Police.
According to the police, Sharma had booked a vanity van with Chhabria s DC Designs Pvt Ltd in 2017 and paid Rs 5.3 crore. In 2018 Sharma was asked to pay a further Rs 40 lakh as Goods and Services Tax (GST) which was again paid.
In 2019 Sharma moved to National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) against DC Designs after realising there wasn t much progress in the van. NCLT then conducted a preliminary inquiry and seized the company s accounts. According to the police, Chhabria then asked for more Rs 60 lakh for delivery of the van, however, Sharma denied it. Chhabria then sent a bill of Re 12-13 lakh as parking charges of vehicle parts.