Nagpur police have registered a case against a recovery agent of a private financial services company for allegedly duping its 37 customers of Rs 8.70 lakh, an official said on Wednesday.

The accused was identified as Maninder Singh Sukhdev Singh Multani, a resident of Nagpur and a native of Haryana. "Multani worked as a recovery agent of the company. He had collected cash from the customers but it was not credited into the company's account. He had issued bogus receipts to the customers," the official said.