Construction company dupes Olympian Karnam Malleswari of Rs 24 lakh

Tribune News Service

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Yamunanagar, July 22

Karnam Malleswari, the first Indian woman to win an Olympics medal, has complained against three partners of a construction company in a case of cheating of Rs 24.70 lakh.

On her complainant, a case was registered against Anuj Aggarwal, Nikhil Aggarwal and Nitin Aggarwal under Sections 406 and 420 of the IPC at Sadar police station, Jagadhri, on Tuesday.

In her complaint, Malleswari said her foundation, Karnam Malleswari Foundation, was to start a weightlifting and powerlifting high-performance training and coaching centre at Chaharo village of Yamunanagar district, the tender for which had been allotted to a construction company in February 2019.

She alleged that the partners of the construction company overcharged her Rs 24,69,883 by submitting incorrect measurement report of the construction work.

“The construction company did the construction work only of Rs 2.03 crore on the spot but the partners of the firm charged Rs 2,28,35,371 from our Foundation by incorrectly calculated the cost of the construction work,” alleged the complainant.

She said the centre was being set up with the grant of the Union Sports Ministry and the cheating of excess amount was detected in a report prepared on the basis of measurement of construction work by a the Deputy Director of Sports Authority of India, Sonipat.