On the pretext of facilitating loan and credit cards, five traders were duped to the tune of Rs 2 lakh in the name of providing credit cards;
case of fraud has been registered by Gandhi Nagar police on Tuesday.
According to the police, the accused Omprakash Yadav duped five persons of Gandhi Nagar area.
SHO of Gandhi Nagar police Jitendra Patel said that the finance company has been told to provide the details of the accused as the company was not able to provide that the accused was employee or he was an agent.
The accused hailed from Bihar and used to live at a rented house in Sharda Nagar. The victim Bhojraj Hemnani and four other traders were duped to the tune of Rs 2 lakh. The five victims provided Rs 40000 each.
The accused is a resident of Sharda Nagar and told the victims that the he was employee of HDB finance company. The police have registered a case under section 420 of the IPC and have started further investigation.
Meanwhile, a case of fraudulently selling piece of land was lodged with Ratibad police on Tuesday; victim bought the land in the year 2007 which was sold by the accused on March this year.
According to the police, the victim Alok Mishra was duped by Madhu Sharma and her husband Rajesh Sharma by selling land earlier sold to Alok.
A complaint was lodged with the Ratibad police and in his complaint the victim claimed that he had bought 12200 sqft land from the couple in the year 2007 at Rs 22 lakh and paid Rs 11 lakh as part payment and the couple agreed for the remaining payment later but sold the property to some other person.
The police have registered a case under section 420, 467, 468 and 471 of the IPC and have started further investigation.