Navi Mumbai Police arrests two for scamming people with 'part-time jobs'

The Navi Mumbai Police in Maharashtra have arrested two persons for allegedly duping several people from across the country with parttime job offers an official said on Thursday reported the PTIAccording to the police official the duo were allegedly involved in about 30 cases of cyber fraud as per the PTIThe arrest of Sagar Jagannath Talgude 39 a farmer from Kolhapur district and Kumar Vishnu Chavan 44 a real estate agent from Satara came after an individual approached the Cyber Police station complaining that he was cheated of Rs 1776 lakh according to the PTIThe complainant told the police that the two contacted him via WhatsApp offering high pay for a parttime job involving easy tasksiquest but extracted money from him on some or other pretext said senior inspector Gajanan KadamThe man approached the police when he did not receive any money from the accused he said citing the complaintAfter the duos arrest on March 4 the police have learnt that they were involved in about 30 cases of cyber fraud across the country the official said adding that an account with Rs 1075 lakh belonging to one of the accused has also been frozenMeanwhile a 45yearold man from Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra allegedly lost Rs 106 crore after being lured into share trading for good returns police said on Thursday the PTI reported on ThursdayA case was registered on Wednesday against four persons in this connection they saidThe accused contacted the man who has an engineering unit in Taloja area of Navi Mumbai and lured him into share trading while assuring good returns senior police inspector Gajanan Kadam saidOver the last two months the man transferred Rs 10628000 in different bank accounts through online mode But when he did not get the returns and his invested amount he approached the police the official saidBased on his complaint a case was registered against four persons under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the Information Technology Act the police addedIn an another incident a case of cheating has been registered against a man for allegedly duping a 65yearold doctor of Rs 80 lakh by promising attractive returns on investment a police official said on Wednesday the news agency reportedThe accused was identified as Shariyar Chhatriwalla alias Shoyeb Memon a resident of suburban KurlaHe allegedly cheated doctor Ghanshyam Verma resident of Nashik by taking money at different times over six years in the name of investment the official saidVerma even borrowed money from relatives and also sold his residence to pay the accused the complaint saidBased on the doctors complaint a case under IPC section 420 was registered and further probe was on the official saidwith PTI inputs