25 January,2024 03:32 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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The Mumbai Police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) on Thursday conducted searches at multiple premises of city-based builder, who is facing a cheating case, an official said, reported the PTI.
The searches are going on at the residence of the builder, his office and two other premises in the city, he said.
The Mumbai police had last week registered a first information report (FIR) against the builder and his wife, the directors of his company and a few others at the Chembur police station, according to the PTI.
The complainant in the case said that he had invested Rs 36 lakh in a construction project at Taloja in Navi Mumbai of Maharashtra. The company assured him that the project would be ready in 2017. However, its construction stopped suddenly in 2016. Hundreds of flat buyers invested in the project, but they neither got the flats nor received their money back, the complaint said, as per the PTI.
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Based on the complaint, the builder and others were booked under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust) and others, police said, the news agency reported.
"The EOW has been probing the case against and others following the registration of the FIR," the official told the PTI.
One more FIR was registered at the Taloja police station in Navi Mumbai against him and others last week. As per the complaint, 160 home buyers were allegedly duped by the accused to the tune of Rs 44 crore in his company's housing project at Kharghar in Navi Mumbai, police said.
Meanwhile, the Palghar Police have registered a case against a man for allegedly beating up a 31-year-old railway pointsman after a rail crossing gate was closed when he arrived there in Maharashtra's Palghar district, an official said on Thursday, the PTI reported.
The incident took place on Tuesday when the victim was on duty at the railway crossing in Boisar area.
He was closing the gate for an approaching train when the 45-year-old accused arrived there on a two-wheeler and got agitated at the gate being closed, the official from Government Railway Police (GRP) in Palghar said quoting the victim's complaint.
(with PTI inputs)
