16 from Mumbai and Ahmedabad booked in Rs21 crore cheating case

  • | Monday | 11th February, 2019

Surat: Sixteen accused were booked at crime branch for cheating a textile manufacturer from the city of Rs21.36 crore. Police are working to locate the other accused.Complaints of cheating in textile business happen regularly in the city. He had sold the material on credit to the 16 accused from Mumbai, Bhiwandi and Ahmedabad last year and despite multiple reminders to them, they didn’t bother to make the payment. The accused, who belong to different places in the country, after purchasing textile material from the complainant between March and October 2018 refused to make payment to him. They are also verifying if the accused really exist or someone had created multiple fake identities to dupe the victim.

Surat: Sixteen accused were booked at crime branch for cheating a textile manufacturer from the city of Rs21.36 crore. The accused, who belong to different places in the country, after purchasing textile material from the complainant between March and October 2018 refused to make payment to him. One accused Sachin Ahuja has been arrested from Mumbai, but police are yet to question him about the cheating.Amit Jindal, 32, a resident of Bhatar, who runs a textile production unit, has clientèle across the country. He had sold the material on credit to the 16 accused from Mumbai, Bhiwandi and Ahmedabad last year and despite multiple reminders to them, they didn’t bother to make the payment. The complainant had sold the material to the accused through an agency and they were supposed to make payment within a few weeks.“It is yet not clear how the cheating was carried out. We are investigating if the accused had planned the cheating together, because it is a huge amount and many businessmen are involved in the fraud,” said a police officer of crime branch.Police are examining business papers with the complainant. They are also verifying if the accused really exist or someone had created multiple fake identities to dupe the victim. Police are working to locate the other accused.Complaints of cheating in textile business happen regularly in the city. The newness in this is the huge amount involved, police said.

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