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Man booked for duping farmers of Rs 27 lakh

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Sirsa, March 20

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The Sirsa police have registered a case of fraud and cheating on the complaint of farmers of six villages in Sirsa district in a case of duping them of Rs 27 lakh in the name of contract farming.

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The police said the farmers from Darbi, Bharokhan, Dhani Rampura, Panihari, Shahpur and Beg villages alleged that a youth, Vipin Kumar, contacted them for contract farming of potato and they entered into a deal with him in 2018. The farmers produced potatoes and supplied the produce to a godown in Karnal as per the instructions of the contractor. However, they alleged that Vipin paid them Rs 6 lakh, but was still to pay them Rs 27 lakh. —

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