In the wake of mid-day’s report about the arrest of Sharad Amritlal Rochlaney, an alleged crook who conned property owners, two more people have come to the fore, claiming they had been cheated of lakhs by the accused. They stated that Rochlaney had been out of reach for the past few years.

Kishore Chaudhari, a developer who also has a retail supermarket business in Dubai and is currently living in Nahar, Sakinaka, told mid-day, “I  came to contact with Rochlaney around 2012 through a common friend. He duped me of more than Rs 50 lakh between 2014 and 2016. I had given the money to Rochlaney but he was unable to return the amount. I waited for months. Finally, he agreed to give me property, at Vikramgarh in Palghar district. After seeing the documents, it appeared that the property belonged to someone else and it was mortgaged at that.”