New Delhi: You can't escape the long arm of the law, even if you swallow a knife! Fraudster Amarendra Nath Ghosh learnt it the hard way.
Ghosh was the ultimate conman in India's history of frauds till the law caught up with him. He was presented before the court of First Special Court Judge, Alipore, on Tuesday after his extradition from Germany on Monday.
The man, wanted for defrauding banks in Kolkata of about Rs 30 crore, was remanded to judicial custody for 14 days by the court.
Earlier, Ghosh was arrested amid high drama, which in fact read much better than any crime thriller.
Ghosh swindled about half-a-dozen banks in Kolkata of Rs 28 crore in 1994 and after a red corner notice from the Interpol in 2002, he was finally arrested in Germany in the same year.
But when India sought his custody in 2003, Ghosh swallowed a four-inch knife and refused surgical help to make sure Germany doesn't extradite him on medical grounds.
But his game plan fell through as a relentless CBI convinced the German authorities to hand over him and even flew down a team of surgeons in a chartered aircraft to Munich to bring Ghosh home.
The chartered aircraft used for the purpose was reportedly meant for the Prime Minister's use. And after 13 long years and nearly three years' legal battle, Ghosh was finally in the CBI net and he was brought to Delhi from Munich by a CBI team on Monday.
"There are seven chargesheets against him in four cases for criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, cheating, falsification of accounts and criminal misconduct," CBI Joint Director US Dutt says.
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