Overview

• Surendran J, a resident of Kollam, was arrested after years on the run in a case linked to a 2010 fraud involving Bank of India in Ludhiana.
• He is accused of using forged documents to secure a Rs 150 lakh foreign bill purchase credit facility for his firm Stich and Ship.
• The CBI said technical intelligence and ground verification pinpointed his location, leading to his detention on September 18.
• He was presented before the Chief Judicial Magistrate in Thiruvananthapuram for transit remand and then produced in the Special CBI Court in Mohali.
• The court sent him to judicial custody, with the agency calling him the principal conspirator and noting a prior chargesheet filed in Mohali.