mumbai syed imtiyaz qadri the man who holds the key to the investigation into ghaziabad audi accident of january 28 in which four people died claimed on thursday he was paid rs 7000 in three rs 2000 and two rs 500 notes for a false deposition in courthe also said he was led to believe the court appearance was a formality in a car insurance case and was tutored about what to say before the judge by three people an income tax officer a cop and an insurance agent the tutoring happened over two sessions on the night of january 30 and the next morning in a room booked for him at hotel royal park in indirapuram the room he says was airconditioned and he was served nonveg food and drinkson february 2 qadri surrendered before a ghaziabad court and walked out on bail he introduced himself as ishak ahmad a truck driver with whom he shared living quarters in bareilly he also submitted a copy of ahmads driving licencethe revelation strengthens suspicion of a conspiracy to hide the identity of the real driver of the q7 that night the car owner is manish rawat a consultant neurosurgeon at delhis safdarjung hospital rawat told police he was in the car but wasnt driving he fled when people started gathering at the accident site he said qadri told toi he does not know what an audi looks like and that he had never worked with manish rawat but after he gave his statement to the police the photo that rawat shared with toi of his driver was of qadri the doctor however claimed he knew him as ishak ahmadthe ghaziabad crime branch which has taken up the probe has recommended criminal conspiracy charges against both rawat and qadri the new revelations made by qadri could help police join the dots and connect the real driver to the crime sceneqadri had gone missing from bareilly after it became apparent that he was an im postor he surfaced in mumbais nalasopara where he was arrested on march 28 in a snatching casethe judge asked me if i was ahmad i said yes qadri told toi on thursday speaking about his february 2 visit to the ghaziabad court he claimed he had no idea about the accident and deaths i was told it was a mere formality for a car insurance case it was only later that i realized that i was charged for running over and killing four people said qadri he said he was under the influence of drugs and had agreed as he was in dire need of money qadri also implicated ahmad who he alleged was aware of his documents being submitted in court he claimed ahmad too was paidqadri claimed he was first contacted on january 29 by the insurance agent who he only knows by the surname tiwari qadri claimed tiwari first offered him rs 5000 and later raised his offer to rs 7000 all qadri had