On the pretext of facilitating Vodafone Call Centre a city based businessman was duped to the tune of Rs96.5 lakh. The MP Nagar police registered a case of fraud on Tuesday.
According to the police, the victim Khwaja Rashid of Old city area was contacted and offered to facilitate call centre of Vodafone Company by Divyarth Sharma of Bagh Mughalia area. Sharma assured that he could facilitate the call centre.
It was decided that the victim would pay the amount in parts to the accused and the process started in the month of January this year. The total amount which was paid by the victim was around Rs96.5 lakh in parts. After the payment was made and no procedure was initiated, the victim started to demand for the refund, but to no avail.
Frustrated over the delay and losing all hopes the victim lodged a complaint with the MP Nagar police and after preliminary investigation the police have registered a case under section 420 of the IPC and have started further investigation.
In the complaint the victim claimed that in January, Divyarth Sharma met him and introduced himself as a consultant for the telecom companies and claimed to have good rapport in political circles in Delhi and Bhopal. After few days he contacted the victim and said that there is no Vodafone call centre in Bhopal and offered his Bhavani Enclave residence for opening the call centre and the victim after consulting and getting assured deposited around Rs96.5 lakh in the bank account of accused in May, but after the money was deposited Sharma started to avoid victim’s call and later switched off his mobile phone.
Police said that the accused has also provided land documents as security against the payment but they were found fake when verified. The victim owns KTS Company in MP Nagar which deals in telecom services.