AHMEDABAD: A 38-year-old man from Gandhinagar on Saturday filed a complaint of cheating against three men who took personal loan of Rs 48,000 on his documents which the complainant gave to them to take a loan to buy a cellphone worth Rs 18,300.
Vijay Dantani, a resident of Adiwada village in Gandhinagar, said in his FIR with the Sector-21 police that the incident took place in July 2020 when he went to enquire about a cellphone.
Dantani went to a shop in the Sector-16 area, he met the accused Chetan Rajawat, Abdulkadar Qureshi and Rajnikant Vora, who were giving information about cellphones to their various customers.
Dantani enquired about the cellphone and they showed him various cellphones and Dantani liked one of them which had a cost of around Rs 18,300. They told him that he could buy the phone by taking a loan after which Dantani paid Rs 5,000 down payment.
Dantani had to pay six instalments of Rs 2,374 each including interest of the loan for his cellphone. After which, they kept the cellphone with them for around one-and-a-half hours and did some banking transactions and also obtained his identity proofs like election card and pan card in the garb of the cellphone loan, mentioned the FIR.
In September last year, two recovery agents of a private bank barged into house and sought Rs 14,244 as unpaid instalments on his personal loan. Dantani tried to convince them that he did not took any personal loan but the agents were not convinced and wanted to recover money from him.
Later, he enquired with the officers of main branch of the private bank in the Prahladnagar and found that the personal loan of around Rs 48,000 was taken on his name.He approached police and the inquiry revealed that the three men – Rajawat, Qureshi and Vora had taken a personal loan in Dantani’s name.
Sector-21 police booked the three men under charges of cheating, breach of trust and criminal conspiracy and began an investigation.
