Chennai: Meet Sukesh Chandrasekhar Rao aka Sukash, a school dropout who had amassed multi-crore assets including luxury cars, luxury watches, and jewels, by his serial con acts. He is alleged to be the middleman suspected to be helping the AIADMK deputy general secretary TTV Dhinakaran to secure a favourable order from the Election Commission. Sukash was arrested by the Delhi Police’s Crime Branch, which also seized '1.3 crore, from his hotel room.
Sukash’s history of crime dates back to his teenage days when he was jailed several times. When he was 17, Sukash introduced himself to Subramaniyam, (85), as the relative of as a close friend of Nikil Gowda, former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy’s son and offered to retrieve land of 7,200 sq ft at HBR Lay out from Bangalore Development Authority (BDA), which was allotted to Subramaniyam and was later withdrawn. Sukash collected about Rs 1.14 crore in installments in 2007 and handed over a forged allotment order for the disputed land.
In Tamil Nadu, he posed as Jayakumar IAS, working as Social Welfare Secretary and Karnataka Project Development Board Director to two businessmen. He contacted Balasubramanian, owner of Future Technic Pvt Ltd and convinced him to apply for bank loans with Canara Bank SME branch – Ambattur. Based on fictitious and forged communiqués sent by Sukash stating Balasubramanian’s firm had been shortlisted to supply 30,000 vending machines worth '120 crore, loans to the tune of Rs 12.7 crore were sanctioned. The money was then diverted into several accounts held by Sukash across the country. Following complaints, City’s Central Crime Branch (CCB) arrested Sukash from a Court in Delhi Saket Court Complex, on July 8, 2013,
The 27-year-old ‘Don Juan’ of crime was addicted to luxury cars, luxury watches, and jewels, while his forte – a silver tongue helped him hoodwink even the managers of public sector banks, besides businessmen and soft targets. The class-X-drop out from Baldwin Boys’ School in Bengaluru, had a chequered schooling as his schoolmates reserved ‘kariya’ (Bengaluru slang referring to people of dark complexion) jibes for him. Sukash, a polyglot, could converse fluently in English, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi and Gujarati. His English would bear a neutral accent while his Tamil would be better than of those who were born and brought up here. No one from Tamil Nadu would be able to tell from his Tamil that he is a Kannadiga.
Sukash fell in love with Leena Maria Paul, who began her acting career in Mollywood in tiny roles, and was featured in the Mohanlal starrer Red Chillies in 2009. She acted in Husbands in Goa directed by Shaji Surendran and another comedy thriller Cobra in 2012. Leena made her Bollywood debut with Madras Cafe directed by Soorjit Sircar and starring John Abraham. In course, she became Sukash’s comrade in crime.
