Paytm plot hatched in a Delhi hotel, cops tell Court

Noida: Sonia Dhawan and the opposite accused in the Paytm extortion case had hatched the conspiracy to blackmail the company’s founder, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, over a sequence of conferences in a Delhi resort, police have informed courtroom.
It was once in a resort room that Sonia, a former vice-president of Paytm, her husband Rupak Jain and a former Paytm worker Devender Kumar would instruct the fourth accused, Rohit Chomal, on find out how to make the extortion calls and what to inform Sharma. Rohit, whose arrest has been stayed through the Allahabad high courtroom for lack of evidence, had even blurted out the names of Sonia and the others right through one in every of his calls, the police advised the courtroom.

Noida police on Saturday claimed to have supplied some incriminating evidence towards the accused in a 250-page chargesheet that it submitted in courtroom. “We have charged the accused under IPC sections 381 (robbery through clerk or servant of property in possession of grasp), 384 (punishment for extortion), 386 (extortion through hanging a person in fear of dying or grievous harm), 420 (dishonest and dishonestly inducing supply of property), 408 (criminal breach of trust through clerk or servant), 120 B (punishment of criminal conspiracy) and Section 66 of the IT Act, 2008,” an officer said.

The chargesheet was once filed in lower than two months. Manoj Pant, the SHO of Sector 20 police station and investigating officer in the case, said their probe had published that the accused would talk to each other over phone and discuss their plan for hours at a stretch.

“They would meet at a resort in Delhi to hatch the conspiracy. We have get entry to to call main points of the accused, which divulge that they would additionally discuss their plan over the telephone. During one of the crucial extortion calls, Rohit Chomal had even mentioned the names of Sonia, Rupak and Devender. We have submitted this recording in courtroom. This will act as evidence towards Rohit Chomal, whose arrest were stayed through the courtroom,” he said. “The police have made a strong case towards them in courtroom,” he added.


The officer declined to reveal additional main points. “The subject is in courtroom.”


Satish Kumar, who's representing Sonia and her husband in courtroom, said the chargesheet was once just an extended version of the FIR. “I am not at all frightened because I have ready a very sturdy case. The courtroom will pay attention Sonia’s bail plea on December 11. I strongly believe the courtroom will accept the bail plea,” Kumar said.


Sonia, her husband Rupak and Devender have been arrested on October 22 for allegedly planning to extort Rs 20 crore from Paytm founder Sharma.


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