Navi Mumbai doctor duped of Rs 70 lakh on pretext of selling flat
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Thane: The Navi Mumbai police have registrerted a case against three individuals for allegedly duping a 48-year-old doctor of Rs 70 lakh under the guise of selling a flat in the Maharashtra's Navi Mumbai township, police said on Thursday.
According to the PTI report, the accused showed a flat located in the Roadpali area of Kalamboli to the doctor and expressed their intention to sell it to him despite the fact that it had been already sold to someone else.
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They took Rs 70 lakh from the doctor but did not give him possession of the flat, an official from Kalamboli police station said.
When the doctor demanded his money back, the accused evaded him.
The doctor on Tuesday approached the police with a complaint, based on which a case was registered against the three accused under legal provisions for cheating and criminal breach of trust, the official said, news agency PTI reported.
Medical Dilaogues had earlier reported that a 55-year-old city-based woman doctor was swindled of Rs 4 crore after being placed under 'digital arrest' for 10 days.The Gujarat CID Cyber Crime cell arrested an MBA student from Mumbai, who worked as a caller for a Cambodia-based international gang after his return from the Southeast Asian nation. According to the police, the accused claimed he was pursuing an MBA and went to Cambodia to earn money. He then joined an international criminal gang run by Chinese and Cambodian nationals nearly five months ago.
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