A 22-year-old youth was nabbed on Friday for duping around Rs 8 lakh in the name of facilitating house built under Government scheme at Mata Mandir area. According to the police victim Faizan Ali of Sethi Nagar in Ashoka Garden area lodged a compliant of fraud on April 4 against Utsav Saxena in which the complainant has alleged that Utsav had collected around Rs 8 lakh for providing possession of houses under Rajiv Gandi Awaas Yojana.
An amount of Rs 8.10 lakh was collected by the accused from 13 people including the victim. During the investigation police failed to find the accused as he had provide the victims with wrong addresses and find it difficult to track him due to not having any local contact but succeeded to nab the accused from lasudia Indore.
The police are yet to recover the money duped from the victims. Accused likes to maintain a luxurious life style and would spend lavishing and to maintain the life style he would cheat people and spend the money on lavishness. Interestingly the victim’s parents were also booked for fraud by MP Nagar police in the past.
Police said that the victim is very cunning and has claimed that he is not concerned about his parents and the same was the reaction of the parents about their son but he used to stay with his parents in Indore.
The money would be recovered from the accused told the police. A case of fraud was registered against the accused and he would be produced in the court requesting police remand of the accused to obtain information regarding the duped money.