01 February,2024 03:35 PM IST | Thane | mid-day online correspondent
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The Navi Mumbai Police in Maharashtra have registered a case against two persons for allegedly cheating a 61-year-old businessman from Navi Mumbai township of Rs 4.41 crore in a deal pertaining to the optical fibre cables, an official said on Thursday, reported the PTI.
According to the PTI, the victim, a resident of Kharghar area who operates a business of optical fibre cables, entered into a deal with the accused for taking the supply from them.
The businessman paid a total sum of Rs 4,41,64,000 into the account of the accused since January last year but the cables were not supplied, the official from CBD police station said, as per the PTI.
Based on his complaint, the police on Wednesday registered a case against two persons from Nagpur under Indian Penal Code sections 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 34 (common intention), the official said.
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A probe was on into the case.
Meanwhile, in an another incident, a 29-year-old man allegedly committed suicide in Maharashtra's Navi Mumbai township following which his wife has complained to police against a woman of harassing him, forcing him to take the extreme step, police said on Thursday, the news agency reported.
Based on the complaint, the police on Wednesday registered a case against the 31-year-old woman under Indian Penal Code section 306 (abetment of suicide), they said.
The man, a resident of Uran in Navi Mumbai, allegedly hanged himself at the accused woman's residence in the same area on January 13, an official from Uran police station said, according to the PTI.
The woman had been reportedly pressuring the deceased to divorce his wife and and marry her, he said quoting the complaint, as per the PTI.
The police initially registered a case of accidental death report (ADR) and had sent the body for post-mortem to a government hospital in the city.
After receiving the autopsy report and based on the complaint by the victim's wife, the Navi Mumbai Police registered the case against the accused woman, the official said, the PTI reported on Thursday.
Further investigations in the matter were being done.
(with PTI inputs)
