Chief Minister Pushkar Si🎶ngh Dhami's former private secretary P C Upadhyay has been arrested for deꦺfrauding a pharmaceutical company owner of over Rs 50 lakh on the pretext of getting him an e-tender, police said on Friday.
Upadhyay was arrested in Dehradun on Thursda๊y, Senior Superintendent of Police Ajai Singh said. He was produced in a local court and sent to jail, Singh s✤aid.
T♊he victim Ram Keval, who runs a medicine factory JR Pharmac👍eutical in in SIDCUL, Haridwar had lodged a case in the matter on March 9, the police said.
Keval, in his complaint, alleged that Upadhyay had promised him an e-tender of Rs 5 ಞcrore for supplying medicines in various districts of Uttarakhand, they said.
He added that one Saurabh Vats arranged his meeting with Upadhyay and also took money from🐈 him.
Keval alleged he was duped of Rs 51,71,440 in separate installments and apart from Upadhyay and Vats, named fo🌄ur others -- Vats's wife Nandini, Shahrukh Khan, Mahesh Mahariya and Sonak Mahariya -- in the complaint, the police said. Vats was 🌸arrested on Wednesday from Bhilwara by Rajasthan Police in connection with another case of fraud, they said.
The other four accused in the e-tender case are still on the r꧙un, they added.
