Chhattisgarh Police on Monday arrested a man for cheating 12 people to the tune of over `3 lakh for allocation of flats under the PM Awas Yojana’s Affordable Housing in Partnership by issuing fake receipts and allotment slips of the Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC).
Raipur Senior Superintendent of Police Ajay Kumar Yadav told The Pioneer that A. Ravi Rao has been taken into custody. Three others -- Sunil Nayak, his wife Preeti Nayak and Ajay Kumar -- are at large. All are from Raipur.
R. Lakhan, Duna Mahesh, D. Bhimraj, Palakala Dambru, M. Rajeshwari, Ramudu Devendra, Gulab Nayak, Meena Kumari, Tamar Savitri, Ramudu Motiyalu, Ramudu Umashankar and Tamar Haribandu were cheated by the accused.
On Sunday night, RMC officer Rajesh Rathore (54) lodged a complaint with the City Kotwali Police.
The accused had taken `25,000 each from the 12 people after giving them fake receipts. Later they recovered up to `1.25 lakh from some victims by showing them fake allotment lists of the RMC to shift them from Subhash Nagar to Labhandih in Raipur.
When the victims reached to take possession of the flats, they came to know about the fraud.
The victims on Thursday reached the RMC headquarters and lodged a complaint with the RMC authorities. After a departmental inquiry, the RMC lodged a FIR with the police.