Sahnewal police arrested a man for for duping labourers on the pretext of helping them get gas cylinder connections under the Prime Minister’s Ujjwala Scheme. Police said he used to charge ₹300 to ₹500 from each family and has duped over 600 people so far.
The accused has been identified as Sanjay Prashar, 42, of Jaspalon village, who works as a driver at an LPG cylinder supply company. Police have recovered 11 filled forms of Ujjwala scheme, 604 unfilled forms, a fingerprint scanner and ₹3,000 from him.
Inspector Amandeep Singh Brar, station house officer at Sahnewal police station, said the government scheme is free of cost and after some people filed a complaint stating that Sanjay was charging for it, a cheating case was registered. Sanjay told police during questioning that he stole the forms for the scheme from his workplace.
3 booked for ₹7.69 crore bank fraud
Moti Nagar police booked three people including a woman for a bank fraud to the tune of ₹7.69 crore.
The accused have been identified as Ravi Sarda, Sangeeta and Har Raj Sarda – all residents of Housefed complex. The FIR has been lodged based on the statement of Nirmal Singh, chief manager of Bank of India, Dhandhari Kalan.
{{/usCountry}}The accused have been identified as Ravi Sarda, Sangeeta and Har Raj Sarda – all residents of Housefed complex. The FIR has been lodged based on the statement of Nirmal Singh, chief manager of Bank of India, Dhandhari Kalan.
{{/usCountry}}In his complaint filed on May 17, 2021, he told police that the trio had availed a loan of ₹7.69 crore from the bank in 2005 on the pretext of a starting a business.
However, the bank found out that the trio hadn’t established a business and neither did they repay the loan.
Rakesh Kumar, investigating officer, said a case has been registered under Sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) and 406 (criminal breach of trust) of Indian Penal Code.