4 booked for duping Kolkata businessman of Rs 21 crore
According to police, the accused persons and their firms took the complainant's company's money on the pretext it would be invested in phases with the promise of good returns.
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when the miscreants ignored multiple warnings, officers used mild force to disperse the crowdMumbai police booked three directors of three different firms on Tuesday for allegedly defrauding a Kolkata based director of a private company to the tune of Rs 21 crore.
Juhu Police booked Rohit Arora, Yadvendra Sharma, Bhavesh Singh and Pankaj Singh who are directors, former directors and official representatives of three different financial service firms. They all have been booked on the complaint of Ravindra Rameshchandra Biyani, 50, director, A S Confin private limited, a Kolkata based company, the police said.
According to police, the accused persons and their firms took the complainant’s company’s money on the pretext it would be invested in phases with the promise of good returns.
However, the complainant later discovered that the accused persons allegedly did not invest the money and used it for wrongful self gain, defrauding the complainant in the process, the complainant stated in the FIR.
The FIR was first registered with the Juhu police station and later got transferred to the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai police for further probe.
The accused were booked under sections 406 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating) and 34 (common intention) of Indian Penal Code.
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