The Chhattisgarh

Tag: Fraud Case

  • He was absconding for a year after committing fraud of lakhs, capital police arrested the thug from Ahmedabad

    Raipur. The capital police has arrested an accused who was absconding from Ahmedabad in a fraud case. The accused was absconding for the last one year and the police was trying to catch him. The accused Jaidev Dua had cheated the applicant of Rs 15 lakh for a construction work in front of the TVS showroom located in Fafadeep. This case is from Devendra Nagar police station area.

    The applicant had lodged a complaint in the police station that he had given a work order to Jaidev Dua for aluminum composite panel and other material work by Vishal Builder. In return, the applicant had given Rs 5 lakh in advance on March 7, 2019. However, Jaidev sent low quality material, which was not taken back even after repeated requests. After this, Jaidev sent an invoice of Rs 22 lakh, on which the applicant paid another Rs 10 lakh. Still neither the goods were delivered nor any work was done. Due to repeated procrastination by Jaidev Dua, the applicant got the work completed by another contractor. Due to this fraud, the police had registered a crime against the accused under section 420.

    After continuous efforts in the case, the police arrested Jaidev from Ahmedabad. During interrogation, he confessed his crime, after which he was brought to Raipur on transit remand and legal action was taken against him.

  • Deputy Director of Employment Exchange became a victim of fraud, fraud of Rs. 6.42 lakh in the name of bank KYC update

    Virendra Gahwai, Bilaspur. Even educated people are becoming victims of fraudsters. One such recent case has come to light in Bilaspur district, where a cunning fraudster has cheated the Deputy Director of Employment Office of Rs 6 lakh 42 thousand online by luring him to update the KYC of his bank account. This case is of Sarkanda police station area. After the complaint of the incident, the police have registered a case against unknown accused and have started investigation.

    According to the information, Vishnu Prasad Kedia, who lives in Mopka of Sarkanda police station area, is a deputy director in the employment office. On May 10, he received a call on his mobile, in which the caller introduced himself as a bank officer and lured him into getting his SBI account KYC done. After that, he was asked to transfer money in installments on different pretexts. On this, the unknown accused transferred Rs 6 lakh 42 thousand in different installments, yet the money was being demanded. Then the deputy director realized that he had been cheated online. After which he lodged a report of the incident at the police station. On the report of the victim, the police have registered a case against the unknown accused under section 420, 66 G and are investigating.