A 38-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly cheating an advocate on the pretext of offering her a travel package for a trip to Gujarat. The accused, Paulina, is a resident of northwest Delhi’s Indira Vikas Colony, police said.
Paulina and her husband Ricardo Gomes operated from Delhi and Kolkata, respectively. Gomes has been arrested by Maharashtra Police.
The matter came to light when the advocate, a travel enthusiast, approached police alleging that she was duped by a travel agency, Think Trip.
The complainant contacted the agency for a trip to Gujarat and she was asked to make a payment of `38,000. The complainant transferred the amount to a bank account registered in the name of Riona Tour and Travels, the police said. Later, the accused told her that her trip had been cancelled due to the rising number of Covid-19 cases. When the complainant tried to contact the agency, its number switched off.