Govindpura police have booked a miscreant for duping an engineering student to the tune of Rs 1.25 lakh; police have started search for the accused after case was registered on Saturday.
Police said that the victim Roshan Soni is engineering student and lives in Barkheda Pathani and was duped by unidentified man.
The victim lodged a complaint stating that after he visited his friend Ashish Ranjan and his elder brother Nitin they told that they wanted to sell their motorbike worth Rs 1.25 lakh. Roshan suggested selling it through OLX website and he posted advertisement.
In his complaint victim stated that after he took bike to the showroom near Chetak Bridge and when he was returning he received call and miscreant asked to meet him. The miscreant came and in the name of taking trial of the bike, he took the bike but never returned.
The victim after waiting for long approached police and lodged complaint. Based on the complaint after the preliminary investigation police registered a case of fraud against the accused and started search for the accused who is still at large.
The CCTV camera footages of the nearby installed cameras would be checked in the further investigation for establishing the identity of the miscreant. Police have also started to track the accused based on the mobile phone number used by the miscreant.