Crime Branch Bhopal arrested an accused from Jodhpur who cheated Rs 42.73 lakh in the name of Ayurvedic treatment; accused along with his accomplices used to cheat, gang members used to target elderly women around the hotel and restaurant.

The accused had opened several accounts for cheating. Two members of the gang used to go home for treatment as doctors and assistants.

Posing as an assistant, the member used to go to the bank and get money transferred to his gang member's account. As soon as the money came, the member based in Jodhpur used to withdraw it immediately.

A complaint by Rakesh Mohan Virmani resident of Shahpura Bhopal was made with Crime Branch Bhopal against Rajeev, Dr. R. Patel and  Sanjeevani Ayurvedic Bhandar and another boy in connection with cheating of Rs.44 lakhs in the name of treatment.

During the investigation, a team was formed and sent to Rajasthan, after reaching Jodhpur Rajasthan, the account holder accused Vishal's , resident of Jhawar district, Jodhpur was searched, which was not found, later the other account holder accused Savar Lal Jat was arrested after questioning the accused in connection with the incident, the accused accepted the crime. Two cheque books, Aadhaar card and mobile phone were recovered from the accused.

On interrogation, the accused told that he has a gang in which there are about 6-7 people. He and his two-three companions live in Jodhpur. The rest of the members come to Bhopal and live in the outer area and visit big hotels and restaurants in the day and evening and take care of elderly and women who have difficulty in walking.

Targeting them and going to them they used to say that their mother also had a problem in her legs, for which they have treated the doctor, which is a lot of relief because women used to be very worried about the disease and provide mobile number of his aide.  The others would reach and would tell that the legs have severe problem and would require to treat it from about 300-400 places. One-time charge of Rs.6,000 was told as the victim had a lot of problems, due to which he agreed to undergo treatment through this process.  In this way, this process was done by them about 400 times, out of which some money given by the victim at home, the remaining money of Rs 21 lakh was taken from their bank to assistant and RTGS was done from the bank to the gang members' accounts.

For Ayurvedic medicines, the victim was given the address of Sanjeevani Ayurvedic Bhandar, New Delhi by the Vaidya of the gang and told to order the medicine through courier. Even the gang members couriered fake medicines to the victim from Rajasthan, in return for which about Rs 10 lakh were deposited in their accounts. In this way, the incident of cheating was carried out by the gang member in the name of treatment.