A 29-year-old Narsinghpur based woman was cheated in the name of facilitating railways jobs. Accused posed as IAS officer over facebook. Hanumanganj police have registered a case of fraud and started investigation.
Police said that the victim Bharti Katiya was duped by Naveen Gupta after she became acquainted with the accused over facebook around a year ago. The accused introduced himself as an IAS officer posted in New Delhi. Later accused offered her job in railway as he has connections which could be used to facilitate job for her and when she came to Bhopal accused escaped with her belongings.
The victim in her complaint stated that she was offered job by the accused and assured that accused would she came to Bhopal on October 21. The accused met her and they went to hotel Regency at Ghora Nakkas in Hanumanganj area and later accused took her to Secretariat where he went inside with all documents of victim and asked her to wait outside but never returned. The victim tried to contact the accused but failed and returned to hotel where she found that accused escaped with bag carrying mobile phone, cash, 5 ATM cards and all of her documents.
The victim approached Hanumanganj police and lodged complaint regarding the accused.
After the preliminary investigation police have registered a case under sections 406 and 420 of the IPC and started further investigation.
The accused claimed that he is resident of Bhopal and asked victim to visit Bhopal. The details provided by the accused are fake, said police.