Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the city police have registered a case of cheating and criminal breach of trust against a known builder and a developer for allegedly duping a man to the tune of Rs 50 lakh. The EOW has booked Shekhar Dadarkar of SD Constructions and Ajay Dedhia of Asmi Developers under Sections 409 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code. According to the police, the complainant in the case, Asu Poturmal Nihalani, 76, is into the construction business and is a resident of Khar (W). According to a police officer, Nihalani, in 2007, had given Rs 50 lakh to the accused persons for getting an eight-room house at Unnati Nagar Cooperative Housing Society in Goregaon (West). "Nihalani in his complaint has alleged that though allotment letter was issued to him, the possession of property was never given. As per Nihalani, while registering the Second Supplementary Agreement of the said project, Dadarkar and Dedhia purposefully did not include documents containing his name," said an EOW officer. A complaint in this regard was registered with the Goregaon police on December 1 and later EOW took over investigations of the case. So far, no arrests have been made in the case. Dadarkar was arrested in 2016 in a cheating case filed by flat buyers and was again arrested last year over a similar complaint filed by a non-banking financial company (NBFC). In September last year, the NBFC had filed a criminal complaint against Dadarkar and others for entering into allegedly fraudulent deals over properties worth more than Rs 3 crore, which was secured in its favour by him. HISTORY SHEET Dadarkar was arrested in 2016 in a cheating case filed by flat buyers and was again arrested last year over a similar complaint filed by a non-banking financial company (NBFC)

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