NGO man tries to collect funds from PSUs with fake PMO letter

A 50-year-old man running an NGO has been arrested by the Delhi Police crime branch for trying to dupe PSUs by sending fake letters in the name of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).
The fax machine and laptop used for commission of the crime and other incriminating documents have been recovered from his possession. The accused, Yashpal Singh Tomar of Shahadra, ran the NGO 'Global Need Foundation (G-Need)'.
The crime branch received a complaint from NTPC Limited, saying it had got a letter through fax which was a request for corporate sponsorship of Rs 1,50,000 for an award ceremony to be held on February 13 at ICCR Indraprastha, New Delhi.

"He was also aware that settings can be changed in fax machine from which sender's address and name can be manipulated. While sending letters to Heads of PSUs, he fraudulently made fake endorsements to make them believe that the letter was sent by PMO," the police officer said.
"...Suspicious about the same, the complainant got it verified from the PMO and found it fake and registered a complaint," said a senior police officer.
During investigations, it was found that similar letters through fax were received by ONGC in Mumbai and Oil India Limited in Noida, and Tomar was identified as the sender.

"Initially, he tried to mislead the investigators by saying that he had sent the fax to BJP office from where it was sent to the concerned companies and claimed he received confirmation of the fax sent to BJP office. However, when he was asked to show the acknowledgement receipt he broke down and confessed to have sent the letter from his fax machine by fraudulently adding details of PMO," said the officer.

During interrogation, the accused disclosed that he is an MBA and the NGO was founded by him in 2000 to promote art and science developments among youths and children.

In 2005, the NGO started 'Rajiv Gandhi National Talent Competition' in Delhi and competitions were also organised in Tripura, Assam, West Bengal and Jharkhand till 2013. He used to write to the various PSUs to sponsor it.
He felt that he could get sponsorship easily if the letter was shown to have been sent from the PMO. As he was facing shortage of funds, he planned and decided to send some of the letters having fake endorsement by the PMO.
Further investigations into the matter are on, the police officer added.