by Harish Gupta, National Editor, Lokmat Group
How the con man was conned by North Block
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The PMO connection
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• It, now, transpires that the Income Tax sleuths were surprised when they raided the Safdarjung Enclave bungalow of P N Sanyal to look for the man who used to send text SMS messages to top officers of the Central Board of Direct Taxes.
Harish Gupta
New Delhi, Aug 3
A high-profile sex racket -- busted in Delhi last week creating ripples as it involved top businessmen, bureaucrats, politicians and others -- has a PMO connection; so it seems. It, now, transpires that the Income Tax sleuths were surprised when they raided the Safdarjung Enclave bungalow of P N Sanyal to look for the man who used to send text SMS messages to top officers of the Central Board of Direct Taxes.
Now, it transpires that he not only supplied high-end escort girls to politicians, corporate tycoons and bureaucrats but also used to get things done in government offices. He used to send text messages to CBDT top officials to get officers transferred from one place to other and other favours. The text SMS messages used to be sent in the name of Prime Minister's principal secretary Nripendra Mishra directly to the CBDT officers. Since such messages used to be for low rank officials, none cared to check and complied by replying on the mobile number: "Done Sir." But one day he wanted a commissioner rank officer to be given a plum posting. The text message landed on the mobile phone of the CBDT chairman from ostensibly Mishra's mobile. The chairman had technical difficulty in getting the order implemented and went to the higher-ups to seek advice. When Mishra was contacted, he flatly denied he had anything to do with it. Even the mobile number was not his either. The cat was out of the bag. It was then decided to sent a team of IT officials and raid his place. The case was transferred to the Delhi Police after it turned out to be the case of a smart cookie going berserk.
Sanyal was trafficking women from Central Asia and running the syndicate. But somewhere he got involved in transfers and postings too.He was found guilty of impersonation and human trafficking and collected documented proof in the form of SMSes and WhatsApp messages. The I-T officials found documents with "fake letterheads" recovered from his house to "get his work done in government offices".
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