PUNE: The Bibwewadi police are searching for a Mahim-based man, accused of cheating a Bibvewadi medical practitioner of Rs 2 lakh between September 2020 and February 2021 by promising an MBA seat for his son in a prominent management college in Mumbai.
The police said the medical practitioner waited for six months after transferring the money as asked by the suspect, but the latter failed to deliver on his promise. The police registered the case under the provisions of the criminal breach of trust and cheating against the Mahim-based man.
Assistant inspector Kiran Deshmukh of the Bibvewadi police said, “The medical practitioner took the Mumbai-based man’s number from the parents of a girl, an MBA aspirant, in his neighborhood. The complainant never met him.”
“The accused promised a seat in a prominent management college in Mumbai for the victim’s son and asked to transfer Rs2 lakh to book the seat. The victim transferred the money using the UPI application to the suspect,” said Deshmukh.
“The suspect stopped answering the victim’s calls after receiving the money in February-March this year. Later, his phone remained switched off. After the victim realised that he had been cheated, he approached the police,” said the police.
