Anil Goyal, a Dhansar based coal trader, who was arrested from Calcutta at night on Thursday along with his son Hemant Goyal in connection with a Rs 5.36 forgery case was sent to Dhanbad jail on Friday afternoon after being produced in the court of first class judicial magistrate, M Guin of Dhanbad.

The father-son duo are accused of supplying stone and ash mixed waste products in lieu of Australian imported coal after taking Rs 5.36 crore as advance from Ratanji Road, Purana Bazaar, Dhanbad, coal trader Prakash Agarwal, owner of Ayasha Coal trading company, as part of a carefully planned conspiracy.

Prakash Agarwal registered a case against Anil Goyal, his son Hemant Goyal and several others including, Dinesh Goyal (Hare Street BBD Bagh Calcutta), Sanjay Kumar Poddar (Bhagalpur, Bihar), Sanjeev Bose (Burdwan), Dharmendra Rai (Gopalganj, Bihar) of forgery of Rs 5.36 and also charged Hemant Agarwal of threatening him in various ways when he demanded return of his money.

Talking to media outside the Dhanbad court, Vikash Bhuvania, Agarwal's lawyer, said, “The duo, who own Nursing Ispat Udyog Pvt Ltd at Calcutta, as a part of a well-planned conspiracy trapped my client, Prakash Agarwal in the name of supply of Australian imported coal and instead supplied stone and ash mixed scrap and also took around Rs 5.5 lakh in advance.”

“When my client asked them to take back the waste scrap and instead return back the money Hemant Goyal started threatening them in various ways,” said Bhuvania and added that Hemant Goyal has served a jail term of one and a half months in a GST fraud case.

“A case has been registered in this regard by my client Dhansar Police station on August 19 and police after prima facie finding the allegation true arrested them from Calcutta with the help of Calcutta Police,” said Bhuvania.