The accused, Shashank Pandey and his wife, Soumya Pandey, were arrested in Lucknow’s Hazratganj area.
On June 3, Arvind reportedly met a deputy general manager of the corporation and showed him the document.
Pandey gained the legislator’s confidence by claiming that his brother was an IAS officer posted in Delhi and had influential connections with the CWC chairman, according to the complaint. Since both belonged to the same district, the two families had developed personal relations, according to the complaint. SHO, Hazratganj, Shivanand Mishra, said Pandey used this familiarity to offer assistance in obtaining approvals for railway goods warehouses, wine warehouses, medicine storage facilities and Food Corporation of India (FCI) warehouses. Pandey later said that payments had to be made through an established system and that the money would reach his IAS brother, who would speak to the CWC chairman to facilitate the approvals, according to Singh’s account. The official described it as forged and said the corporation did not issue such letters in that manner, according to the complaint. Singh said he confronted Pandey and his wife over the forged NOC and asked them to return the money within two days.
He claimed that his IAS brother was posted at the Prime Minister’s Office and had helped secure the appointment of CWC chairman Ashutosh Agnihotri through his influence. LUCKNOW: A couple was arrested on Sunday for cheating BJP MLA Vinod Singh, who represents Sultanpur Sadar, by promising to secure approvals from the Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) for the construction of warehouses, police said.