28/3/2018
PUNE: A 55-year-old woman from Ganj Peth was duped
of Rs4.37 lakh by two persons who offered her Rs 85 lakh as deposit and a
monthly rent of Rs 90,000 for providing space at her plot in Daund to install a
mobile tower.
The suspects presented themselves as employees of a mobile
tower installation firm and collected Rs 4.37 lakh from the complainant,
Kumudini Kurapatti, on the pretext of taking processing fee, transport and
other charges. The complainant deposited the money in three different bank
accounts between December 2017 and February this year.
Kurapatti had purchased a plot in Vasunde village of Daund
taluka last year and wanted to utilize the space for business. In December last
year, she found an advertisement in a local newspaper about a firm looking to
install mobile towers. The firm had promised Rs 85 lakh as deposit for 20 years
and rent of Rs 90,000 per month.
“Kurapatti contacted the cell phone number mentioned in the
advertisement. One of the suspects, who posed as the employee of the firm, immediately
agreed to install the tower at her plot and asked her to deposit Rs 2,500 as
the processing fee,” said a Khadak police officer.
After she deposited the amount, Kurapatti received an
agreement copy and other documents from the firm by post. Later, one of the
suspects again called and told her that the firm had sent a team to Daund. He
asked her to deposit Rs 25,000 as transportation and labour charges. “Kurapatti
deposited that amount too,” the officer said. Between December 2017 and
February 2018, the suspects took Rs 4.37 lakh from Kurapatti giving similar
reasons.
When no one turned up for the tower installation even after a
month, Kurapatti realized she had been duped. The suspects have been booked
under sections 420 (cheating) and 406 (criminal breach of trust) of the Indian
Penal Code.
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