Overview
- Badlapur police registered a case against four persons who allegedly siphoned Rs 97.75 lakh from a 45-year-old interior decorator after promising a Rs 2.75 crore CSR-backed loan.
- The victim paid Rs 99.25 lakh as a supposed bank guarantee, of which only Rs 1.5 lakh was returned, according to officials.
- Virar police filed an FIR after two men allegedly took a woman’s gold, two phones and a car worth Rs 17.03 lakh by claiming a raid at her home was imminent.
- The Virar complainant’s husband is lodged at Taloja Jail, and the accused, identified as his acquaintances from Mira Road, also took her ATM cards.
- Both cases are at the investigation stage with efforts under way to trace the six named suspects, and no arrests or major recoveries reported so far.