29 January,2024 09:31 AM IST | Navi Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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Navi Mumbai police booked nine persons for allegedly cheating a woman and others of crores, an official said on Monday. Per a PTI report, Navi Mumbai Police registered a case against them for defrauding a 42-year-old woman from the city and other persons of Rs 2.97 crore after promising them high returns in various investment schemes.
An official from Sanpada police station told PTI that the accused utilised the money taken from the woman and other victims to buy shared and both--movable and immovable properties over the last three years. However, the official added, that the accused did not deliver any profits or reimburse the victims for their investments.
The woman, who lives in the Navi Mumbai township's Seawoods neighbourhood, complained to the police on Sunday, PTI reported.
Based on the complaint filed by the woman, Navi Mumbai police booked nine persons under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code, the Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning Act), the Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Act and the Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors (In Financial Establishments) Act.
According to the report, an investigation is underway in the case.
Meanwhile, in an unrelated case, the cyber cell of Mumbai Police identified a new trend of cyber fraud wherein crooks create Telegram channels in the names of police stations. They then call people impersonating a uniformed cop inside a police station and implicate them in false cases to cause panic and extract money.
The mid-day report stated that recently a septuagenarian was duped of Rs 3.5 lakh by cyber crooks using a similar trick. The report cited the FIR saying that the 70-year-old businessman received a call from a fraud claiming to be an officer attached to Lucknow Customs.
The fraudster told the businessman that someone had delivered a package from Myanmar to Lucknow containing clothing, a laptop, 20 passports, and 150 grams of mephedrone. They frightened the businessman after he refused to come to Gomti Nagar police station and record his statement.
The fraudsters made the man share his bank account details by furnishing fake documents and after he did, he was asked to send them Rs 3.5 lakhs. Upon telling his family later, they approached the cops.
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