4 booked in cheating cases

Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, June 22

The police have booked two persons for immigration fraud and two others for cheating in the sale of properties.

Two persons, identified as Dinesh Chawla, a resident of Army Apartments, Phase 3, Dugri, and Randeep Singh of Jammu Colony, Dhuri Line, have been booked by the police for cheating the complainant on the pretext of sending his son abroad.

Sukhwinder Singh, a resident of the Police Lines, lodged a complaint that Dinesh Chawla had taken Rs 9,98,252 on the promise of sending his son Manpreet to Australia.

“The accused neither sent his son abroad nor did he returned the money,” said the complainant. The police have registered a case under Sections 406 and 420 of the IPC and investigation was on. Randeep Singh was booked under Sections 420 of the IPC and Section 24 of the Immigration Act for his failure to send the nephew and the daughter-in-law of the complainant, Neelam, a resident of New Satguru Nagar, for a job abroad after taking Rs 1.5 lakh from her in two instalments. Neelam said the suspect failed to send her kin to abroad and also refused to return the money.

In a case related to property fraud, the police have registered a case against Pavneet Singh, a resident of Phase 2, Urban Estate, Dugri, under Sections 406 and 420 of the IPC on the complaint of Honey of Shastri Nagar, Model Gram. The suspect has been charged with signing an agreement to sell a house in Phase II for Rs 56 lakh to the complainant and having received Rs 33 lakh in advance. However, the deal did not mature as the complainant learnt that the suspect had already taken a bank loan on the plot. According to the complainant, he returned Rs 10 lakh to him and refused to pay the balance amount.

In another case of fraud, the police have booked Sukhwinder Singh, a resident of Gill village, under Section 420, IPC. Complainant Parminder Singh, a resident of the same village and brother of the suspect, said Sukhwinder had signed a deal for the sale of a 500-sq yrd land for Rs 3 lakh but the sale deed was not registered even after he had paid the entire amount to the suspect.

Rs99,998 siphoned off in cyber fraud

Jagjivan Singh of Phase II, Dugri, fell victim to cyber criminals who siphoned off Rs99,998 from his bank account. In a complaint to the police, he said he was trying to get in touch with the customer care of a payment gateway in connection with a failed payment. “The person on the other end told me to click on a link and fill my bank details. Thereafter, the amount was withdrawn from my account in three transactions. The police said they had identified four suspects as Roshan Singh, a resident of Katihar in Bihar, Rohit Kumar Rai of Kosam (Gujarat), Raju Ansari of Mangia Bandh (Jharkhand) and Ujmeer Sheikh, a resident of Murshidabad (West Bengal), who had been booked under Sections 420 and 120-B of the IPC. TNS

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