Sacked Driver 'Raids' Ex-Employer Over Unpaid Salary, Tax Officials Help Him
Police said the businessperson's former driver, Santosh Uday Khopatkar, 37, who had been dismissed without six months' salary, set the plot in motion.
A 37-year-old former driver named Santosh Uday Khopatkar orchestrated a fraudulent ₹1-crore fake income tax raid against his former employer, businessman Rajkumar Kandasami. Khopatkar was dismissed from Kandasami's company without receiving six months' salary, a fact that fueled his resentment. Using his insider knowledge, he conspired with two serving Income Tax officials and five others to impersonate government agents and carry out the extortion plot.
The group targeted Kandasami's office, posing as Income Tax Department and Crime Branch officials, and seized the business owner's mobile phones while threatening further action from the Income Tax Department. Two Income Tax officials, Suresh Mahavirprasad Mishra and Sunil Manohar Gore, were arrested in connection with the scheme. The investigation is ongoing.
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