Police in Maharashtra’s Navi Mumbai has booked a couple and their accomplice for allegedly cheating a hospital by siphoning off insurance money
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Police in Maharashtra’s Navi Mumbai has booked a couple and their accomplice for allegedly cheating a hospital by siphoning off insurance money, a police official said on Saturday
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The accused, during her tenure in the hospital's TPA department from November 2022 to April of this year, is alleged to have misappropriated funds associated with insurance claims of patients, news wire PTI reported. The total amount siphoned off is reported to be a staggering Rs 8.25 lakh. The charges levied against the trio include cheating and criminal breach of trust.
As of now, no arrests have been made in connection with the case, and investigations are actively underway.
Man duped of Rs 37 lakh by couple on promise of setting up gym
A couple allegedly cheated a 40-year-old man from Dombivli in Maharashtra's Thane district by taking Rs 37 lakh from him on the promise of starting a gym, police said on Saturday.
The victim works as a manager at an automobile showroom, an official of Naupada police station said.
Based on the complaint lodged by him, a case under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 34 (common intention) was registered against Mandar Mukund Sabnis and his wife Varsha.
"The victim used to regularly go to a gym at Dombivli, where he came in contact with the accused in 2021. Sabnis told him about their plan to start a gym and sought financial help from the victim. The accused told him that the gym project, which was to come up in Thane and Dombivli, would cost Rs 1.50 crore," the official said.
Starting 2021, the couple took money to the tune of Rs 37 lakh from the victim for the proposed gym, which was never set up. When the victim asked them about it, they gave evasive replies to him, following which he approached the police and lodged a complaint.
Meanwhile, Police has registered a case against 31 persons, including 11 women waiters and singers, for allegedly indulging in obscenity at a restaurant-cum-bar at Nerul in Navi Mumbai, an official said on Saturday.
The action against them was taken following a raid conducted at the bar during the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, he said.
"During the operation, the female singers were found misbehaving with the customers and making obscene gestures at them. The customers were also found encouraging them," senior inspector Ravindra Daundkar of the Turbhe police station said. (With inputs from agencies)
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