Purnia, Bihar: A case of fraud amounting to Rs. 2.87 crore has come to light in Madhubani, where a Delhi-based businessman was allegedly duped in the name of providing land for an ethanol plant. The case has been registered against four accused from Purnia at the Madhubani police station, reported Dainik Jagran.
The police have obtained arrest warrants for all four accused and intensified their search. The complaint was filed by Ajay Goenka, a resident of Model Town in Delhi.
As per the news report, in the FIR, Ajay Khemka, the Delhi-based businessman, stated that he needed 15 acres of land in Purnia to set up an ethanol plant. He was introduced to Vivek Anand, son of Shivnath Prasad Sah, a resident of the Hat police station area in Purnia.
After several meetings in July 2021, Vivek Anand claimed to own 15 acres of land and provided details of the plots, including their survey numbers and areas. He agreed to sell the land at ₹36 lakh per acre. A written agreement was signed on August 1, 2021, and ₹2.51 lakh was transferred to Vivek as token money via RTGS. The sale deed was to be executed within a month.
Khemka alleged that after the agreement, Vivek Anand started asking for payments to be made into various bank accounts. When questioned, Vivek claimed that some land was not in his name and that the money was being transferred to the landowners’ accounts to complete the process. A total of ₹2.84 crore was transferred to these accounts, but Vivek failed to hand over the land.
In 2023, Vivek and his three associates—Sahid Raza, Dimpy Singh, and Vijay—signed another agreement, promising to refund the money. However, neither the land nor the money was returned. When Khemka visited Purnia on July 17, 2024, to demand his money, he was allegedly threatened with death.
