Bizarre: Man declared Dead 30 years ago arrested by CBI for Fraud

The CBI has arrested a US citizen Nirmal Singh, 65, who had been declared ‘dead’ in India about 30 years back, in a Rs 2.5 lakh bank fraud he committed in Chandigarh in 1985.

Singh was arrested from his Punjabi Bagh house in the city, having landed in the country around 2 months ago, in the wee hours of Saturday. A Court had declared him a proclaimed offender in 1993.

He was the manager at UCO Bank, had been booked by in 1990 in a case registered at the CBI Police station. Singh had also remained in jail for 2 years before being bailed out.

On being granted bail, hw went underground, while his family cremated an ‘unclaimed body’ by showing it as that of Nirmal, the Central Bureau of Investigation now says. With Nirmal ‘dead’ in the record of the CBI, he got a fake passport in the name of NS Batth & migrated to the Unite States, where he managed to get citizenship. Later, he also got his wife & children with him & was leading a lavish life there. His wife Parminder Kaur Batth had also launched a web news channel, named Bulandh TV.

Inspector Vikas Kumar, who led the CBI team said that “Following a tip-off that Nirmal is alive & has come back to Patiala, we conducted a raid & arrested him. On seeing us, he fell unconscious. He was provided medical aid”.

Inspector Kumar added that  he would be produced in court after his covid-19 test report.

Sources said a close aide of Nirmal singh, who had entered into a tiff with him in recent times, had informed the central agency about his whereabouts. Now, the CBI has also named his wife Parminder in a new FIR charging her with cheating, for concealing the whereabouts of her husband, & helping him flee. 

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