Four nabbed for duping 2 residents of Rs 22.75 lakh

The police claimed to have arrested four out of eight suspects who had allegedly cheated two persons on the pretext of paying handsome returns on investment in their company.

The arrested suspects were identified as Avtar Singh of Kheernia village, Bikramjit Singh, Amit Khullar and Harpreet Singh, residents of Gehlewal village.

Parwinder Singh of Baina Buland village, Jaspreeet Singh of Jalanpur village, Satwinder Singh of Amloh and Jatinder Singh of Gobindgarh were yet to be nabbed.

The suspects had allegedly duped Joginder Singh of Baba Nand Singh Nagar, Pullanwal, here, and his brother-in-law Manoj Kumar of Rs 22.75 lakh.

Investigating officer Pavitar Singh said an FIR had been registered against the eight persons associated with a company, Generation of Farming, under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita on Wednesday.

Joginder had informed the police that the suspects had allured him and his brother-in-law to deposit Rs 25.75 lakh in two separate accounts on March 26.

Though the suspects had promised handsome profits from deposits in their company, the returned only Rs 3 lakh to the victims, due to which the latter suffered a loss of Rs 22.75 lakh.

Pavitar said the Samrala police had initiated a probe into the case after seizing four laptops from the possession of the suspects.