Maharashtra: Engineer booked for cheating businessman of Rs 20 lakh in Nagpur

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An engineer has been booked by the Nagpur Police in Maharashtra for allegedly cheating a businessman of Rs 20 lakh by promising him a Rajasthan government contract, a Nagpur police official said on Sunday, the PTI reported.

Gondia resident Deepak Amkar, who is an ex-student of a prestigious institute, in January this year approached Abhijeet Ballewar, whose firm supplies furniture, computer parts and other spares to various companies, he said, according to the PTI.

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"He told Ballewar they could bid for Rajasthan government tenders jointly. After Ballewar transferred Rs 20 lakh into Amkar's account, the latter sent him fake tender documents," the Sonegaon police station official told the PTI.

By March, Ballewar knew he was duped and a case under Indian Penal Code and Information Technology Act for cheating and other offences was registered against Amkar, he said.

Meanwhile, in an another incident last week, a 49-year-old man allegedly lost Rs 2.24 crore to insurance fraud in Maharashtra's Raigad district, an official had earlier said, reported the PTI.

In his complaint to the police, the resident of Kamothe, near Mumbai, said he lost the money over three years, the official said.

The man, whose occupation was recorded as service by the police, allegedly received a call before August 2020 from a person who claimed to be from insurance regulator IRDAI's Integrated Grievance Management System, earlier known as IGMS.

The caller promised to get the complainant Rs 58 lakh by facilitating the premature closure of his insurance policy, the official said citing the first information report (FIR).

Between August 2020 and July 31, the fraudster smooth-talked the complainant to shell out nearly Rs 2.24 crore under the pretext of several procedural fees and taxes, the official said.

However, when the caller started giving evasive replies to the complainant's repeated demands for the promised Rs 58 lakh against his policy, the latter realised he had been cheated. He filed a police complaint on Tuesday, he said.

The Kamothe police have registered a case under Section 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code and the Information Technology Act, he said, adding that no one has been arrested yet.

(with PTI inputs)