NRI accuses sister of duping him of Rs75L, lodges plaint

Panchkula, July 10

A Canada-based NRI has registered a complaint against his sister, brother-in-law and their son for allegedly duping him to the tune of Rs 75 lakh.

An FIR has been registered under Sections 120-B, 406 and 420 of the IPC at Mansa Devi Complex police station.

Naresh Kaushal (50), who arrived in the city in 2019 to settle a property dispute and couldn’t return due to Covid-19 restrictions, told the police that her sister Renu Manrao and her husband Harkesh Manrao, had asked him to get the beautification work of their under-construction house in MDC, Sector 4, done from a contractor and pay the expenses on their behalf as they were in Uganda.

According to the complainant, the suspects had promised to pay him the money upon the completion of work.

When Renu returned to India, the complainant asked her to pay the expenses incurred by him on the beautification of their house. At first, Renu kept on delaying the payment on one pretext or another and later denied to make any payment despite several requests made by the complainant, said the police.

Interestingly, Renu, her husband and their son Nimit had called Kaushal and requested him to get all the beautification work done and for this purpose, they had handed over the possession of the said house to the complainant, read the FIR. Kaushal told the police that Renu and her family even threatened to implicate him in a false case.

“The suspects threatened me with dire consequences, saying they share good relations with higher ranked police officials and politicians in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh, and I won’t be able to do anything to them,” Kaushal told the police. — TNS