There are several cheating cases against Saritha S Nair, the accused in the solar panel cheating case. There are two cases against her in the Medical College police station, one in Poonthura police station and one in the Museum police station.
On June 3, Thampanoor police registered a case against Saritha’s friend Biju Radhakrishnan, 40, on charges of swindling Rs 29 lakh from a doctor. Biju, hailing from Kulanada, near Pandalam, swindled the money after acting as a middleman to purchase a windmill in Tamil Nadu. The case was registered on a complaint filed by Mathew Thomas, a retired doctor of the Medical College Hospital. The accused made the doctor believe that he was working in association with the ‘Anert’.
The cheating was done in the name of ‘Swiss Solar Company’, which Biju ‘owned’. Biju hired a room in a hotel at Thampanoor to run the office of the company. “Bjiu told the doctor that he was a 1990 batch IPS officer of the UP cadre and was on leave to work in the energy management field,” said Thampanoor CI Sheen Tharayil. Biju also gave advertisements in the media to promote his company. However, the office remained closed for the past several months. The police have intensified the search for Biju.