AHMEDABAD: A 44-year-old man from the Jivraj Park area of the city on Sunday filed a complaint of cheating against four unknown persons who lured him with the promise of whopping profit in share market investment and cheated Rs 8 lakh.
Kamlesh Meena, a bank manager, said in his FIR with Ellisbridge police that he had first got a call on January 24, 2021 from a man named Gaurav who introduced himself as a staffer of Mehta Equity from Mumbai and assured him of good profit if Meena would invest in stocks.
Gaurav told Meena that his firm would only take 22% of the total returns on the investment and rest of the amount will be given to Meena only.
On Gaurav’s instructions, Meena submitted fees of Rs 3,000 for getting advice of share market.
On January 25, a broker named Neeraj called up Meena and told him to invest Rs 20,000 in a stock and told Meena that office-bearer of the equity firm Rakesh Reddy would talk with him and give advice to get more income through share market.
On January 27, Reddy called up Meena and told him that if he wanted to make more money, he should invest more in some top profit-making shares.
Following instructions of Reddy, his personal assistant Abhinav Mishra and Gaurav, Meena kept investing in various shares and ended up paying Rs 8.09 lakh in various bank accounts
When Meena sought statement of his investment, the accused persons did not give him any document.
Later, they stopped receiving Meena’s calls and responding to his messages.
Meena finally approached Ellisbridge police and filed a complaint of cheating, breach of trust and criminal conspiracy against four persons.
