CBI files chargesheet against ‘conman’ Sukesh in Chengalpattu court

CHENNAI: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a chargesheet against Sukesh Chandrasekar and his associate, Sanjay Jain before the Chief Judicial Magistrate in Chengalpattu, in connection with an impersonation and extortion case.

CBI had registered a case on May 27, 2020 based on the Supreme Court’s directions against the accused persons after taking over investigations from the Tiruvallur district police.

According to the central agency, Sukesh and Sanjay had allegedly conspired to cheat by impersonation using digital devices.

Sukesh allegedly impersonated many senior government officers by using call spoofing techniques, made calls to officials facing criminal cases and extorted huge amounts of money as bribe in the guise of settling their cases. He did this while being on custody parole during October 2019.

Sanjay Jain, a resident of Punjabi Bagh, Delhi was in regular contact with the Sukesh and used to handle his legal matters by arranging lawyers, dealing his parole.

CBI investigations revealed that the Income Tax Department too had conducted raids on the premises of different organisations and individuals, including one organisation having Temple at Varadaiahpalem, District Tirupati (AP), and other related organisations during October, 2019.

Sukesh had contacted one of the persons handling operations of the organisation by impersonating himself as the then Law Secretary, Government of India and allegedly pressurised them to pay Rs 7.50 crore.

He had made ‘spoofed calls’ to representatives of the said group which promoted the said organisation, showing calling numbers as landline numbers of higher government functionaries, which were actually originated from outside India. The accused had also obtained foreign numbers and used them for collection of Rs 2 crore from Mumbai, according to the CBI.