Waluj Mahanagar: Trader duped of Rs 9.50L under pretext of getting food products agency

Aurangabad, Dec 22:

Waluj MIDC police station has registered an offence against an accused, on the charge of duping a trader from Waluj Mahanagar, of Rs 9.50 lakh, under the pretext of granting agency to sell food products and cold drinks.

The complainant Akshay Satish Chajjed (a resident of Cidco in Waluj Mahanagar) has obtained a license to sell food products required in the breakfast, one and a half year ago. Akshay''s friend introduced him to Deepak Kumar Sinha (a resident of Khar Ghar in Raigad district), who was running an agency of a company manufacturing food products. Deepak sent an agreement on email, on behalf of a marketing company Ekansh enterprises (of Vadodra in Gujarat), which stated that Akshay is being appointed as a chief distributor, and was told to deposit Rs 5 lakh as token money. On July 20, one Prakash Joshi, came with the hard copy of agreement duly signed by Deepak Kumar, to meet Akshay. However, the complainant refused to notarise the agreement in the absence of the accused Deepak. As a result, the accused convinced Akshay that he will be coming to Aurangabad on July 25 and told him to deposit the token money.

Believing him, Akshay deposited the money in the account of Ekansh Enterprises through RTGS. Later, Deepak surprised him by saying that he will have to spend Rs 7 lakh more for the agreement. Akshay, in instalments, deposited Rs 9.50 lakh. The accused Deepak and Akshay met at Bajajnagar (in Aurangabad) on August 11. Afterwards, the complainant noticed that Deepak was neither signing an agreement nor providing food products and other products, despite paying lakhs of rupees.

On insistence, Deepak handed over three cheques (of the total amount of Rs 5 lakh) to Akshay, but the respective bank dishonoured them. Hence the victim complained about the incident to the police station. PSI Prashant Gambhirrao is investigating the case.

Cheated youths in Mumbai

The accused Deepak Kumar Sinha (48, resident of Vadodra in Gujarat) had duped many educated unemployed youths of Rs 1 crore in Mumbai. He had assured them of getting jobs in the department of railways. One month ago, Kharghar (in district Raigad) police had registered an offence against him and also put him behind bars. The accused had also duped many people in Gujarat and Jharkhand.

Photo of Deepak Kumar