Fraud cases are on rise in the State capital. Around half-a-dozen such cases have been reported under various police stations in the past four days. They relate mainly to lands, banks and job rackets.
GMS Road resident and retired Railway employee Shashi Prasad registered a complaint against Vijay Kumar, resident Naya Goan Sewlan Khurd in the Petalnagar Kotwali police station. In his written complaint, he said Vijay had duped him of lakhs of rupees on the pretext of providing job to his daughter in Railway department. Seven other persons had given Vijay cash to the tune of around `42 lakh on the assured jobs to their family members in the Railway department.
The complainant said Vijay had arranged written tests and interview in various cities of the country to entrap the people. Some others were also there who posed as Railway officers. After the ‘formalities’ were over the candidates were given false appointment letters and other documents. They understood that they had been victims of frauds when they approached the railway offices with the false appointment letters. When they tried to get in contact with Vijay they found that he was not available on his mobile phone, the complaint ran.
In another such matter reported on October 9, a chemical dealer was allegedly duped of `60 lakh by three persons who had assured to provide him with 300 square yard of lands in Rajendra Nagar area.
The accused had registered lands in his name with false documents. After he came to know that he had been duped, the dealer had registered a complaint in Cantt police station against the trio- Vijanveer Singh, Swapn Marwah and Sunil Marwah, residents of Rajendra Nagar.
In another incident, a woman was duped of `56 lakh by a couple in a similar forged land sale case involving Patelnagar area. The accused -Pradeep Jain and his wife Babita- residents of Rishi Vihar had allegedly the land in Niranjanpur area registered for `56 lakh. later, she found that she was a victim of fraud.
Badrinath Temple priest was allegedly duped of `18 lakh by Dalanwala resident Narendra Kumar Patel who had taken the money promising him to have his daughter enrolled in the PG course in the Medical College. The priest Bhuwan Chandra Uniyal said that he had paid `18 lakh in two installments to Patel. The accused had neither facilitated her to enroll in the Medical College nor had he returned the money back. A case was registered in Dalanwala police station.
SSP Dr Sadanand Date said that as per some police department reports, land and bank fraud cases are alarmingly on the rise. Complainants are registering reports, stating they are being conned by the fraudsters, engaged in collecting money from them in the name of providing them with jobs or lands. This aside, the accused are securing loans to the tune of crores from the banks by submitting false documents.
He said that bank and land related forgery cases will be dealt with stringently under the relevant laws and no one would be spared.