"They Threatened My Children": Ex-Ranbaxy Promoter's Wife On Tihar Conman

In her complaint to the police, Aditi Singh said she had paid Rs 200 crore between June 2020 and 2021 in 10 installments. She was told that the money was to paid to the BJP party funds and central ministers Amit Shah and then law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was on her side.

Sukesh Chandrashekhar,  a conman who ran his business from  behind the bars of Delhi's Tihar Jail, has amassed property worth crores. Rs 200 crore of it has allegedly been extorted from Aditi Singh, the wife of former Ranbaxy promoter Shivinder Singh, purportedly to ensure his bail. Shivinder Singh and his brother Malvinder Singh have been in jail since October 2019 in a fraud case. The police said at various times, the conman had posed as an official calling from the Prime Minister's Office or the Home Ministry or the Law Ministry and liberally invoked ministers' names to dupe people. In her complaint to the police, Ms Singh said she had paid Rs 200 crore between June 2020 and 2021 in 10 installments. She was told that the money was to paid to the BJP party funds and central ministers Amit Shah and then law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was on her side. Aditi Singh said the first call came from a woman who said "law secretary Anoop Kumar" would like to speak with her. The "Law Secretary" said he had "orders from above" to help her husband in view of the Covid situation.