Vivek Sabharwal, a 48-year-old man, has been arrested on charges of trying to take unlawful control of the family firm of the late Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader, Baba Siddique. Mumbai police arrested the accused late Sunday in Delhi and took him to Mumbai.
As per officials privy to the matter, Sabharwal was not only attempting to make himself the authorised signatory of Zears Business India LLP, which is owned by the Siddique family. It was carried out as the fraudulent case was discovered on June 26 after Zeeshan Siddique, a popular political figure and the son of Baba Siddique, received an email alert of a request to update the authorised signatory associated with the mobile phone number of the firm by a mobile service provider.
The request was traced back to a spoofed email ID, which meant that somebody had obtained Zeeshan Siddique’s personal details to achieve their ill intentions of unlawfully acquiring the mobile number registered to the company and making a false application to acquire the signatory rights.
Shehzeen Siddique, the sister of Zeeshan, then filed a police complaint against an unknown individual at a local police station. Her testimony proved beyond doubt that the accused had retrieved the confidential log-in details and impersonated a relative in order to tamper with the official records.
The Mumbai police, with the help of their cyber cell, teamed up on an investigation and managed to trace Sabharwal as the offender. After a raid carried out at his residence in Delhi, he was arrested. Police disclosed that Sabharwal has a criminal record and he is known to be involved in several cases – in Mumbai alone, at least six are reported to have been registered.
The accused will be brought to a Mumbai court on Monday. Cops still have not been able to determine whether there were other people who participated in the attempted takeover and whether sensitive information was compromised as well.
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