Navi Mumbai crime: Former office-bearers of housing society booked for cheating, misappropriation of funds

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Navi Mumbai crime: The Navi Mumbai Police have registered a case against several former office-bearers of a housing society in Navi Mumbai on charges of alleged cheating, misappropriation of funds and fabrication of records, police said on Thursday, reported the PTI.

According to the news agency, the audit of various records of the housing society in Nerul area from its inception on February 17, 1993 till March 2016 revealed many irregularities, an official from Nerul police station said.

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The total misappropriation of funds including loss caused to the government amounted to Rs 39,93,358 the FIR stated, as per the PTI.

The housing society management had violated conditions laid down by the CIDCO (City and Industrial Development Corporation) while allotment of the land plot (for the residential society), the police said quoting the complaint by an auditor of the state co-operative department, according to the PTI.

The management also did not keep proper records of the society, indulged in other irregularities and conducted functioning of the society as per their whims, the complaint alleged.

Following the complaint, a case was registered on Wednesday under relevant sections against 36 named persons and others, the police said.

Meanwhile, in an another incident last week, the police in Maharashtra's Thane district registered an offence against a couple owning an overseas career guidance company for allegedly cheating a woman of Rs 32.4 lakh on the pretext of helping her travel abroad for higher studies, police, reported news agency PTI.

The police registered a case under section 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servant) of the Indian Penal Code against two people including the the CEO and managing director of the company, an official said, reported PTI.

As per the complaint, the girl's parents had paid a deposit of Rs 12.98 lakh and Rs 19.45 lakh to the company for their daughter's admission to two universities abroad between February 2021 and September 2021, he said, reported PTI.

However, the girl was admitted to another university and sought a refund from the company. The alleged accused did not return the money and kept giving them evasive replies, the official said, adding that a probe is underway and no arrests have been made, reported PTI.

(with PTI inputs)