Owner tells cops car ‘used in crime’ didn’t exist then

New Delhi: When a person was issued notice by Delhi Police to join the probe in an extortion case as his car was allegedly being used for a crime, it seemed a routine affair, till it emerged that the car being alleged as the vehicle of crime did not even exist at the tim e of the incident. Shocked at receiving police’s notice, the owner of the Audi, Nitin Sharma and his friend Vijay Kakkar, who has been using the car, have now written to the police terming the allegations against them as “baseless”.
“The car which is alleged to have been used for the crime was manufactured eight months after the alleged incident. So, these allegations are baseless and strange but what’s shocking is the manner in which Delhi Police has proceeded in the matter without even verifying basic facts,” Kakkar’s counsel Tarun Goomber said.
Police had issued a notice to Sharma while acting on a criminal complaint by Gaurav Kumar Singh. According to the FIR, the incident took place on the intervening night of February 27-28, when Singh received several calls from someone named Anjali and he went to meet her at Dwarka 10 metro station.
Singh has alleged that on the day of the incident, Anjali came in the car (whose owner happens to be Sharma) along with four of her friends and asked him to accompany them saying she would give them a birthday treat.
“In the moving car, Anjali and her friends asked me to give them my phone, wallet and cash to them and threatened that if I don’t follow their orders, Anjali would implicate me in a false case,” the FIR stated.
The notice—issued by Assistant Sub-inspector Omkar Mal—to Sharma informed him about the alleged incident and directed Sharma to appear before him on Wednesday. The notice stated that Sharma should come to the Dwarka sector-9 police station along with people who were driving the car at the time of the alleged incident, adding that if Sharma does not turn up, police will initiate legal action against him.
Sharma denied the allegations and termed it “impossible” that the car could have been used for the alleged crime. “It is pertinent to mention here that the alleged FIR is nothing but a blatant misuse of process of law and the same is directed at harassing and extorting money out of me, as I have nothing to do with the allegations ,” Sharma said.