New Delhi: Nearly nine years after Sanjeev Dixit (53) allegedly forged property documents to cheat multiple banks of over Rs 18 crore, Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has arrested him from Tihar Jail.Police said Dixit had been absconding since 2017 after escaping Uttar Pradesh Police custody. Investigators alleged he faked the sale deed of a Vivek Vihar property by using a woman impersonator, posing as the owner and mortgaged the property to obtain loans and credit facilities from multiple banks. The money was allegedly routed through shell companies before being siphoned off. Police said Dixit, who also used the alias “Sanjiv Gandhi”, is a habitual economic offender with 12 criminal cases registered against him by the CBI and police in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.
