No arrest has been made to date
A 51-year-old man from Maharashtra’s Thane district has allegedly been cheated of Rs 5.24 lakh by a Delhi-based one that supplied to rearrange a medication distribution enterprise for him with the Indian Railways, police stated on Monday.
The sufferer had labored as an accountant with a hospitality agency however grew to become jobless throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
He received to know from an acquittance that an individual from Delhi was arranging for some enterprise, an official from Navghar police station stated quoting the sufferer’s grievance.
The accused allegedly supplied drugs distribution enterprise with the Indian Railways to the sufferer and took Rs 12.79 lakh from him between February 2021 and July 2022, he stated.
Later, the accused didn’t fulfill the promise and returned Rs 7.55 lakh to the sufferer, however didn’t pay the stability quantity, the official stated.
The sufferer filed a police grievance on Saturday, primarily based on which the Navghar police registered a case towards the accused below Indian Penal Code Part 420 (dishonest), he stated.
No arrest has been made to date, the police added.
