With a rise in cheating and fraud cases here, the City Beautiful is fast turning into a haven for fraudsters involved in economic offences. So far, 59 cases of cheating has been registered by UT police this year.
Chandigarh police registered three cases under the economic offences Act in one day on Thursday, said sources in police.
Going by the previous figures of Chandigarh police, 234 cases of cheating were registered in the year 2012 and 34 cases under criminal breach of trust were registered. In the year 2013, police registered 284 cases of cheating and 25 cases under criminal breach of trust. Meanwhile in the year 2014, as many as 59 cases of cheating have been registered this year so far.
“In majority of the cases, it was either cheque fraud or property fraud case,” said a police official.On Thursday, Surinder Kumar, a resident of Sector-28, reported that Suraj Parkash, has cheated him in connection with the sale of a plot in Manimajra. The complainant alleged that Suraj, resident of Manimajra, sold him a plot in Manimajra. Suraj sold the plot to complainant despite a ban on sale of the plot by Chandigarh Administration.
Despite the ban on the sale of plot, Suraj took an amount of Rs30 lakh for the property and Rs10 lakh for registration from the complainant. However when Surinder discovered about the ban on sale of the property, he lodged a complaint to the local police against Suraj Parkash.
In another such incident, UT police have booked four partners of finance company located at Manimajra (Easy Finance) and two employees of the organisation for allegedly cheating a lady of Rs41 lakh.The accused Rakesh, Namita, Baldev and Parminder Singh, all partners of Easy finance, and Pankaja and Shashi, employees, induced the complainant, Sarabjit Kaur, to invest in shares of their company.
After being induced by their proposal, Kaur invested Rs 41 lakh in their company. However after receiving the amount, the accused sped away after closing their office.Meanwhile the local police have registered cases against the accused in both the complaints and further investigation is under progress, said Charanjit Singh, SHO, PS Manimajra.