Updated On: 24 December, 2012 06:31 AM IST | | A correspondent
The men were running a racket by regularly placing large orders on items and paying for them with cheques that were rejected by banks
An FIR for fraud amounting to Rs 1.5 crore has been registered at APMC market police station against four men who swindled shopkeepers by ordering lakhs of rupees’ worth of goods and later defaulted on payment. For over a month, the accused have been making expensive bulk orders and paying by fraudulent cheques, which would bounce due to insufficient funds or incorrect information.u00a0

Cheated: The traders file their complaints at APMC market police station against the four accused who swindled them by ordering goods worth lakhs of rupees. Pic/Gopal Shah