NEW DELHI: Police registered a case against six individuals for allegedly cheating several job aspirants out of Rs 1.31 crore in Maharashtra's Navi Mumbai township, an official said on Thursday.
The accused contacted 20 people with the promise of clerical jobs in the Indian Railways. Between September 2022 and April 2023, they collected Rs 1.31 crore from the job aspirants through digital payments and cash transactions, according to the official from Kharghar Police Station.
One of the accused misappropriated the money collected for personal use, specifically for constructing a house in Kolhapur. When the victims, all residents of Kharghar in Navi Mumbai, enquired about job placements, the accused became unresponsive and failed to return the money, the official said.
Realising they were duped, the victims approached the police. Based on a complaint, the Kharghar police on Monday registered an FIR against six individuals under various Indian Penal Code sections, including 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust), and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention), the official said.
The police were working to track down the accused, he added.
The accused contacted 20 people with the promise of clerical jobs in the Indian Railways. Between September 2022 and April 2023, they collected Rs 1.31 crore from the job aspirants through digital payments and cash transactions, according to the official from Kharghar Police Station.
One of the accused misappropriated the money collected for personal use, specifically for constructing a house in Kolhapur. When the victims, all residents of Kharghar in Navi Mumbai, enquired about job placements, the accused became unresponsive and failed to return the money, the official said.
Realising they were duped, the victims approached the police. Based on a complaint, the Kharghar police on Monday registered an FIR against six individuals under various Indian Penal Code sections, including 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust), and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention), the official said.
The police were working to track down the accused, he added.
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