Thane: Two booked for cheating hospital owner of Rs 10 lakh

Thane Police in Maharashtra have registered a case against two individuals for allegedly cheating the owner of a private hospital in Dombivli of Rs 10 lakh officials said reported the PTIAccording to the complaint the suspects entered into a tenyear partnership in 2016 investing Rs 6320 lakh in the hospitalrsquos medical facilitiesBetween 2017 and 2021 they reportedly received profits and returns of around Rs 128 croreThe suspects later withdrew from the partnership abruptly demanding additional funds and securing cheques of Rs 1 crore from the hospital owner under false pretences Out of these Rs 10 lakh was encashed while payments on the remaining cheques were stopped amid suspicion of foul play as per the PTIPolice said that although the suspects had already recovered more than their initial investment they allegedly attempted to cheat further and defame the hospital owner in the medical professionProbe initiatedAccording to the police based on the complaint the case has been registered under sections 3184 cheating 3162 criminal breach of trust 3512 criminal intimidation and 3562 defamation of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita BNSSenior Police Inspector Ganesh Javadwad said that investigations into the matter are ongoing the news agency reportedThane IVF racket Electrician held in JalgaonMeanwhile in an another incident the Thane Police have arrested an electrician from Jalgaon district in connection with an alleged illegal human egg extraction and surrogacy racket taking the total number of arrests in the case to seven officials said on Friday reported the PTIThe accused identified as Satish Chaudhary allegedly created forged Aadhaar cards and other identity documents for economically vulnerable women who were exploited by the racketPolice said these fake documents were used to hide the victimsrsquo identities and facilitate illegal fertility procedures without raising suspicionEarlier this week investigators arrested Dr Amol Patil a dentist from Nashik who allegedly helped arrange illegal surrogate mother contracts According to the police he operated Malti IVF Center an IVF facility registered in his wifersquos name where the alleged illegal activities were being carried out as per the PTIOfficials said the case points to a large and organised network and further arrests are likely as the investigation continues into the involvement of more medical professionals and intermediariesComplaint exposes racket in BadlapurThe racket came to light in Badlapur after a woman complained that she had not received payment for donating her eggs The complaint prompted police to raid the residence of the alleged kingpin Sulakshana Gadekar 44 where hormonal injections used in the egg extraction process were recovered according to the PTIInvestigators suspect that the racket has interstate links Data retrieved from mobile phones indicates that women were lured with offers of Rs 25000 to Rs 30000 After receiving hormonal injections at Gadekarrsquos residence they were transported to Bengaluru Telangana Nagpur Pune and Nashik for egg extraction procedures the news agency reportedEgg donation is a fertility procedure in which a woman provides eggs to help another person conceive typically through in vitro fertilisation IVF The donor undergoes screening and hormone treatment before eggs are retrieved fertilised and transferred to the recipientSonography centre sealedMeanwhile civic authorities sealed a sonography centre at Bhagwan Hospital in Ulhasnagar for allegedly violating regulations and allowing unqualified personnel to conduct scans Earlier a nurse from the same hospital had been arrested for allegedly performing unauthorised sonography to monitor egg development for the syndicate the news agency reportedPolice said the investigation is ongoing and more arrests may followwith PTI inputs