Private Detective Agency wins where Delhi Police and CBI failed
    - By HT Correspondent, The Hindustan Times

NEW DELHI : PRIVATE DETECTIVE agencies in the Capital seem to have assumed the role of the Delhi Police and the CBI. One such agency, Lancers Network Limited, managed to catch a Non Resident Indian, Satwant Singh, who had been eluding the two agencies for over an year after committing a fraud to the tune of Rs 3 crore in Singapore. What is even more embarrassing for the police are the accused was cought barely 50 yards from the police picket at INA Market.

Interpol had issued a red corner alert against Salwant Singh about a year back and had sounded both the CBI and the Delhi Police about his presence in the Capital. But both the agencies failed to catch the accused. Salwant Singh, a resident of Singapore, had cheated a number of banks there through credit cards and after withdrawing huge amount of cash fled from the country with his wife, Jurani Binti Abdul Rahim. A group of banks, headed by the Singapore Bank, hired a private investigating agency, Lancers Network Limited, in a couple of months ago to catch Salwant Singh and his wife. The private sleuths managed to catch, Salwant Singh, from the INA Market on Tuesday evening. He was later handed over to the South District Police. The agency also managed to seize the Baleno car, CH 3D 1111, of Salwant.

"The investigations were monitored by the agency's chief Vikram Singh. Though we too were working on this case they managed to catch him first," a senior police official said. The police, however, are hopeful that they will manage to catch the woman, who is still absconding, before the private agency.Investigations revealed that the accused and his wife were staying in posh hotels like Hyatt and Radisson. Salwant Singh had also purchased two cars, a Baleno and Mercedes.

Both the CBI and the Delhi Police feel the couple had also duped some / Indian banks and companies of several crores of rupees. A team of the Singapore police is expected to arrive tomorrow. "The accused had given the address of 649 Woodland, Ring Road, Singapore, at the hotels he was staying. But to the banks and some companies in Delhi he had given the address of DS Corporate, International Trade Towers," a CBI official added. The Metropolitan Magistrate remanded him to 14 days judicial custody.

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