Man duped of Rs36L, 20 booked

Blurb: Imposters make calls as ‘KBC’ representatives

Our Correspondent

Abohar/Sriganganagar, August 23

A man was allegedly duped of Rs 36 lakh on pretext of winning a lottery and a car in ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC)’ show.

As per the Jawaharnagar police station, Raj Kumar, Anand Kumar, Vipan Chugh, Diya, Pooja Singh, Surinder Singh, Akash Verma, Anil Ambani, Rana Pratap Singh, Rajveer Singh, Vijay Khanna, Mukesh Sharma, Rajesh Singhania, Nandini, Kunal, Rahul, Vishal, Raj Kumar Agnihotri, Sunil and Harun were named in the report given by Sandeep Shekhawat (45), a resident of Officers Colony, located on the Abohar-Sriganganagar Road.

The complainant got a phone call on April 25, and was told that he had won a lottery of Rs 25 lakh in ‘KBC’. He was told to deposit Rs 27,000 in a bank account as lottery tax. Later, he got calls from different numbers and the amount of lottery was increased to Rs 1.20 crore. The callers said a car would also be delivered.

He was also told that he had won a lottery from Dubai and a Ferrari car worth Rs 6.75 crore will be delivered to him. The accused introduced themselves as Amitabh Bachchan’s personal assistant or as representatives of an insurance company, the CBI or the CID.

The complainant said he kept on depositing money in different accounts as taxes. By July, when he got suspicious of the acts, the callers had allegedly duped him of Rs 36.42 lakh. A case under Sections 420 and 120B of the IPC had been registered.