23 August,2023 05:50 PM IST | Thane | mid-day online correspondent
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The Navi Mumbai police in Maharashtra have registered a case against four directors of a private firm for allegedly cheating a businessman of more than Rs 2 crore over a land deal, an official said on Wednesday, reported the PTI.
Citing the complaint by the 31-year-old businessman, the official said that the accused in September 2022 promised to transfer a plot at Pawne MIDC area in his name and took Rs 2.1 crore for the deal, according to the PTI.
The four, identified as Ashok Narayan Pathare, Sushma Narayan Pathare, Jagdish Parvesh Batliwalla, and Parvesh Minuchar Batliwalla, spent the money for personal use and did not transfer the plot in the complainant's name, the official told the PTI on Wednesday.
The Navi Mumbai police on Tuesday registered a case of cheating against the four directors but no arrests have been made yet, he added.
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Meanwhile, in an another incident, a 33-year-old woman from Navi Mumbai has allegedly lost Rs 17 lakh after being lured by fraudsters with an online job offer, police said on Wednesday, reported the PTI.
Two unidentified persons contacted the victim, from Kamothe area in Navi Mumbai, via Telegram app and offered her an online reviewing task on a website for which she was promised lucrative returns, an official from the Cyber police station said, as per the PTI.
For the job offered, the persons allegedly took Rs 17,00,629 from her between August 9 and 14, 2023, he said.
After completing the task, when the victim sought payment of her earnings and the money which she had given to them, the persons gave her evasive replies and later became unreachable, the official said.
The woman approached the cyber police station in Navi Mumbai on Monday and filed a complaint, he said.
The police have registered an FIR against two unidentified persons under sections 420 (cheating) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code and provisions of the Information Technology Act, the official said.
No arrest has been made so far, the police said, adding a probe is on into the case.
(with PTI inputs)
