10 November,2023 05:56 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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Maharashtra crime: As many as four persons were arrested for allegedly cheating a bank in Palghar district to the tune of Rs 29.29 lakh, the police said, according to the PTI.
A man was initially held from Pune's Pimpri Chinchwad, a police official said on Friday, reported the PTI.
The police said, between February 2018 and September 2021, four persons had obtained a housing loan of Rs 29.29 lakh by submitting fake documents, and a case was filed at Arnala Sagri police station after the lender came to know about the fraud, said Crime Branch Unit III senior inspector Pramod Badakh, as per the PTI.
The official said that Deepak Shukla, the fourth accused in the case, was held from Pimpri Chinchwad on November 8.
Accused Chetan Shah, Vinod Mishra and Pankaj Tiwari wee arrested in the case earlier, Badakh said, according to the news agency.
A probe has found Shukla cheated other banks of Rs 85 using the same modus operandi, he added.
Meanwhile, the police in Navi Mumbai has arrested a 35-year-old chartered accountant from Pune for allegedly cheating people of lakhs through "task" fraud, news agency PTI reported quoting an official.
The police apprehended Akash Umesh Pandey, a chartered accountant with a private firm, from Lohegaon in Pune on November 4 in a case registered against him under section 420 (cheating) and other relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and Information Technology Act, senior inspector Gajanan Kadam of the cyber police station said.
The police had received a complaint from a Navi Mumbai resident who allegedly lost Rs 17 lakh after performing various tasks online as instructed by the accused between August 9 and 14, he said.
The police traced the bank account in which the money was deposited and the phone number connected to the transactions. The police froze the bank accounts and zeroed in on the accused in Pune, the official said.
Pandey, along with his associates in Delhi, was involved in four similar offences in Maharashtra and had 21 cyber cases in other states, he said.
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The cyber police have frozen Rs 5.9 lakh deposited in different bank accounts operated by the arrested accused, the official said.
(with PTI inputs)
