Madras Cafe actress Leena Maria Paul arrested in a Rs 200 crore extortion case; Deets inside

Malayalam actress Leena Maria Paul, who is best known for her role in Madras Cafe, is now trending on the internet as she was involved in one of the biggest extortion cases. As per the latest reports, Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing has arrested her in a Rs 200-crore extortion racket that also involves her partner Sukesh Chandrasekar. Paul apparently helped conman Chandrasekhar and duped former Ranbaxy promoter Shivinder Mohan Singh’s wife Aditi Singh.

Aditi Singh filed an FIR against them on August 7 and informed police about how a man posing as a senior official of the Law Ministry in June 2020 offered her a deal to secure bail for her husband in return for money. For the unversed, Shivinder Mohan Singh was then in jail in a money laundering case related to the misappropriation of funds at the company named Religare Finvest Ltd (RFL). A senior police officer revealed that whenever Sukesh pretended to be a senior government official in the law ministry, Leena was the one who transferred the call.

Check out the photos by ANI:

Delhi: Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police arrested Leena Maria Paul (in black dress), partner of Sukesh Chandrashekhar, in connection with case related to allegedly duping Aditi Singh, wife of former Ranbaxy promoter Shivinder Singh

Visuals from outside EOW office pic.twitter.com/b77Qb0JtVw

— ANI (@ANI) September 6, 2021

At the time of the incident, Chandrasekhar was running an extortion racket while he was already behind the bars in Delhi. Chandrasekhar’s two associates who helped him from outside the prison and two senior officials of Rohini jail who aided him were arrested too.

Additional Commissioner of Police (Economic Offences Wing) RK Singh said, “An assistant jail superintendent and the deputy superintendent of Rohini jail were found involved in the racket and they have admitted to have helped the accused. The two jail officials were also arrested.”

Chandrashekhar is accused in not 1 or 2 but 21 other cases. His partner-actress Leena Maria Paul is involved in several fraud cases. The police have levied the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime (MCOCA) Act against the accused.

For the unversed, in 2013, Leena Maria Paul has arrested Chandrasekar in an alleged cheating Chennai bank of Rs 19 crore. She was again on remand in the year 2015 in a scam worth crores. In December 2018, Paul was again in the news for all the wrong reasons after a shootout that took place at her beauty parlour in Kochi.

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