Manchanda was allegedly killed by the couple in Gurgaon on Sept 6. New Delhi: Police are exploring whether Yuvraj Singh Manchanda, a project manager at Adani Realty, may have had doubts about a fraud racket allegedly being run by his former colleague, Anya Vats, and her partner, Sanyam Sachdeva.
Police have found that the couple allegedly targeted people close to them, including a former schoolmate of Sachdeva, who was duped of Rs 1.2 crore after receiving a fake Enforcement Directorate notice. The complainant, a senior vice-president at a non-banking financial company that is a subsidiary of a public sector bank, told police that the extortion began in Sept 2024, when he received the fraudulent notice on WhatsApp allegedly involving an acquaintance. The complainant allegedly transferred over Rs 1.2 crore primarily to Vats’ bank account, using his personal savings, loans and family borrowings. Vats later demanded another Rs 26 crore while claiming that Rs 13.8 crore was paid to govt agencies on his behalf. In the FIR, the complainant also mentioned a WhatsApp message, which read, “I command/order you to repay 30 before Diwali. The body was found in Gurgaon on Sept 10.
And reasons can be many to avoid, but it won’t work. The inquiry also revealed that Vats and Sachdeva had called him on the pretext of a client meeting on the day of the murder.
Manchanda’s family has claimed that even on Sept 16, Gurgaon Police uploaded his entry in the “Unidentified persons found” portal on ZIPNET instead of “Unidentified dead bodies”. The cheating case was registered at Parliament Street police station this Aug. The complainant finally realised that he had fallen prey to a fraud racket and approached police. Everybody has children and families, you aren’t special. Sell your wife/do anything, just repay this. Police are now probing whether Manchanda had learnt about any of these alleged activities.
Gurgaon Police, however, said there was no delay on its part and Delhi police should have lodged a missing FIR within 24 hours of receiving the information from the family.
They should also have flagged it to Gurgaon Police timely, knowing that Manchanda worked in Gurgaon, said a senior officer.