Rajkot: Swindler held after 19 yrs from Kolkata

RAJKOT: A man wanted in three cheating cases registered in Rajkot city was arrested after 19 years from Kolkata in West Bengal and brought to the city on Thursday. The wanted accused, 55-year-old Pradeep Maganlal Sonpal, was caught by the Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) Rajkot.
“We had received specific information about Sonpal that he had been settled in West Bengal’s Howrah for the last many years.He is wanted in at least three cheating cases in Rajkot. We had sent a team to nab him which brought him to the city on Thursday,” a DCB official said.
According to police, a cheating case was lodged against Sonpal in September 2002 at Gandhigram police station for making fake documents of a residential property and taking a loan after mortgaging it with Dena Bank in Rajkot. Two cheating cases were also lodged against Sonpal in Bhaktinagar police station during the same period.
Sonpal was running Ami Medical Agency at Moti Tanki Chowk in Rajkot city. But he fled after three cheating cases were lodged against him. Police said that the accused was running a medical agency in Kolkata. In fact, he had changed his surname from Pradeep Sonpal to Pradeep Thakkar.