Pala: An insurance company agent who disappeared after duping people of Rs 5 crore was arrested from New Delhi after 14 long years.
P K Mohandas, 58, of Nechipuzhoor Mandapam who remained in hiding in various states, was arrested from Rohini in New Delhi.
Mohandas who worked as an agent of the Life Insurance Corportion over a decade ago used to invest the premium amounts collected from his clients in a chitty company that he had floated. He also advertised his land and house was for sale, entered into agreement with several people and took crores of rupees as advance from them, but no sale happened.
The people who were cheated by Mohandas filed a complaint with the police. In 2008, the police registered 15 cases against Mohandas following a flurry of complaints. Soon after Mohandas was arrested by the police. He secured bail from the court and went into hiding along with his wife and children.
The Judicial First-Class Magistrate Court in Pala issued a warrant against Mohandass declaring him as proclaimed offender and absconder.
Life in hiding
In the meanwhile, Mohandas and his wife landed in Punjab and worked as teachers for three years in Ludhiana. Thereafter, he worked in a local temple for two years. While living in the rented house in Ludhiana he managed to get an Aadhaar card.
In 2013 a Kerala Police team went to Punjab in search of Mohandas. However, he got information about the Kerala Police move, and shifted to New Delhi along with his family.
In New Delhi he introduced himself as a resident of Piravom and got a job as an accountant in a temple.
Meanwhile, on the directions of Kottayam district police chief D Shilpa a new investigation team was constituted under Deputy Superintendent of Police Shaju Jose.
During the subsequent investigations the police found that Mohandas and his family had moved to Pollachi in connection with the education of his daughter. The cyberpolice cell in Kottayam examined the call detail records of Mohandas's mobile phone. The police found that his wife and daughter were regularly receiving phone calls from a number belonging to a temple in New Delhi.
During further investigations, the cops found that Mohandas had been working as the accountant of the temple at Rohini in New Delhi for the past eight years. Soon the cops landed there and arrested him.
The fraudster was produced in the court and remanded in custody.
The police team which nabbed Mohandas comprised Station House Officers P Thomson, Assistant Sub-Inspector Biju K Thomas, senior civil police officer Sherin Stephen and civil police officer C Ranjith.
