The son of a BMC employee duped a 32-year-old woman to the tune of Rs4 lakh in the name of providing BMC contracts at Niyamtpura locality. A case of fraud was lodged by the victim after the cheques provided by the accused got dishonored.
According to the police, the victim Reshma Khan was cheated by the accused Khalid Khan and his son Touseef Khan by providing cheque to refund the money taken for facilitating BMC contract.
In the complaint, the victim claimed that she was acquainted with the accused Touseef Khan, who assured her that he could facilitate BMC contracts, but require around Rs4 lakh and which was provided by the victim in two parts of Rs1.25 lakh and Rs2.75 lakh in the month of May 2014, but when the victim was not provided with the contract, she demanded refund the accused provided two cheque of Rs2.25 lakh and Rs75,000 and the third cheque was of Rs1 lakh, which was signed by Touseef. The two cheques signed by Khalid were dishonored, but surprisingly, the third cheque, which was signed by Touseef did not have any bank account.
After the preliminary investigation, a case of fraud was registered against Touseef and Khalid. Meanwhile, a 33-year-old man posing as Tata company official was nabbed for duping hotel Amer Palace to the tune of Rs51,900 by MP Nagar area police on Monday.
According to the police, a resident of Khilchipur under Rajgarh district was nabbed by police after receiving complaint from manager of Amer Palace hotel.
The accused, identified as Deepesh Sharma, who stayed at the hotel from April 14-19 and used all the facilities while leaving told the hotel manager to provide the bill at the company’s office. The police have registered a case of fraud against the accused and have started further investigation.