International Currency Cheater Arrested

12.1.19

          In a major breakthrough the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of DSP Pawan Kumar team headed by Inspector Amanjot Singh is able to arrest the person who is involved in the incident of cheating of 10,000 Euros from Sector-9, Chandigarh.

Profile of accused

                    Snigdha Saurav Dash S/o Sh. Samarendra Dash R/o Vill. Barabatiya Distt. Kendra Pada (Odisha). Aged 30 years. Who is working as consultant with the channel National Geographic and who was earlier research analyst with the same channel. He has done his B.Tech and M.Tech from NIT Nagpur and MBA from IMT Gaziabad.

          On 8.1.2019 an information was received that the person who in involved in cheating of 10,000 Euro from Sector-9, Chandigarh is presently staying in the area of Connaught Place, Delhi. Acting swiftly upon this information a team was sent to Delhi, where accused Snigdha Saurav Dash was arrested from the York Hotel, Connaught Place, Delhi.

Modus Operandi:

                    Snigdha Saurav Dash is an educated person, with the criminal intent and with the bent of mind to earn easy money by cheating innocent people. He used to search on internet about the money changers and then by procuring their telephone number from the internet he used to make them calls and asked them to bring certain amount of money at the given address and used to pretend that he is the owner of the place where he has called the money changer for changing India Rupees into foreign currency. He used to gain their confidence and make them sit at that place and take the foreign currency on the pretext of giving them the India currency, whereas the money changer kept on sitting and waiting for him to come back and in the mean time Snigdha Saurav Dash used to flee with cheated amount.

        On 24.12.2018 Snigdha Saurav Dash adopted the same modus operandi and called Manchanda Money Changer to SCO No. 156,157, Sec.9, Chandigarh and pretend them that this is his office and took 10,000 Euros from them and asked them to wait in the office and let him bring the Indian Currency. As the Money changers were waiting, he fled away with the 10,000 Euros. Regarding this case FIR No. 252 dated 24.12.2018 u/s 420 IPC PS-3, Chandigarh was registered.

          On 24.12.2018 after cheating the said amount Snigdha Saurav Dash he immediately went to Delhi and then from Delhi he entered Nepal by road in a bus and lost all the money in Grand Casino, Nepal and he came back to Delhi on 2.1.2019. He is habitual gambler and visited almost all the gambling hubs of the world i.e. Hong Kong, Singapore, Macaw, Nepal, Goa and Sikkim etc.

Previous Record

          Snigdha Saurav Dash has a tainted past and previously arrested by Delhi Police in year 2016 for cheating money Changer of 8000 USD in which he has been arrested and presently on bail.

          He was produced before the hon’ble Duty Magistrate on 8.1.2019 and his four days police remand was obtained till today i.e. 12.1.2019.