As many as 50 persons were duped by two women fraudsters in the name of facilitating loan and the victims lodged complaint with Bairagarh police after victims checked status of their loan application; one of the accused was nabbed by police while other was on run.
Police said that complaint against Jia Motwani and Seema Pawar were booked for duping people from nearby areas for facilitating loan under ‘Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Antyodaya Yojana’ and for facilitating loan took money in the range of Rs 5000 to Rs 20000 from the victims. The Investigating Officer SI Prakash Rajput said that the victims were lured of providing loan for starting their own business under the scheme and after the victims got assured they provided the money to the accused women.
The loan was provided to needy people under the central government’s scheme ‘Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Antyodaya Yojana’. It was found that around 100 people applied for a loan through the scheme in a bank and from the victims the accused took Rs 5,000 to Rs 25,000 in the name of the loan amount.
Till date 48 victims reported the fraud and approached police to report their complaint and in the initial investigation it was found that there are around 94 such people who have been duped by these two women.
Police registered a case under section 420 and 34 of the IPC and arrested on the accused identified as Jia Motwani who revealed that she was hired by Seema and was paid on trapping victim.
Under the scheme, the unskilled people would be trained and support to establish their business and collected money for procession of the loan.