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Thane doctor, 3 others cheated of Rs 1 crore by Chennai firm on pretext of loan, FIR filed
Thane: In another fraud case, a doctor and his three associates from a village in Maharashtra's Thane district were allegedly cheated of more than Rs one crore by a Chennai-based firm on the pretext of arranging a loan of Rs 10 crore.
The victims are from Sonarpada village near Dombivli, police said.
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Based on the complaint lodged by Dr Harshavardhan Thakur, a case was registered under Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 420 (cheating) and 406 (criminal breach of trust) against the company and its director and others linked to the firm, a police official said.
In the complaint, the victim said that in December 2020, the company and other accused promised to arrange a loan of Rs 10 crore. They took Rs 82.50 lakh from the victim in several installments, but never arranged any loan. After the victim confronted the company, it returned Rs 30.30 lakh to him, but the remaining amount remained unpaid.
The company also cheated three others in a similar manner and the amount collectively involved is Rs 1,08,60,000, the complaint said.
Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that in an alleged case of online fraud reported in the city, five Africans and an Indian woman had been arrested by the cyber cell of the UT police for allegedly duping a lady doctor of Rs 47.22 lakh by creating fake profiles on Christian matrimonial sites where the main accused introduced himself as a doctor from Amsterdam, Netherlands. Based on the complaint of the woman doctor, the cyber cell police busted the gang operating from Delhi and Greater Noida and arrested six accused in connection with the case.
A case was registered against the main accused at the cyber cell police after the doctor was duped under Sections 419 (cheating by personation), 420 (cheating), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence), 467 (forgery of valuable security, will, etc), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 14 of the Foreigners Act.
Kajal joined Medical Dialogue in 2019 for the Latest Health News. She has done her graduation from the University of Delhi. She mainly covers news about the Latest Healthcare. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in.