Nirmal, the manager at UCO Bank, had been booked by in 1990 in a case registered at the CBI Police station. On being granted bail, Nirmal went underground, while his family cremated an ‘unclaimed body’ by showing it as that of Nirmal, the CBI now says. His wife Parminder Kaur Batth had also started a web news channel, named Bulandh TV. “Following a tip-off that Nirmal is alive and has come back to Patiala, we conducted a raid and arrested him. Now, the CBI has also named his wife Parminder in a new FIR charging her with cheating, for concealing the whereabouts of her husband, and helping him flee.

Source: Hindustan Times May 30, 2020 20:34 UTC