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A Goregaon resident has filed a police complaint against three people of a credit society for allegedly duping him of Rs 1.25 crore.
According to the complainant, Ajaykumar Gupta, 51, who runs a Kirana Store in Goregaon (East), he kept his lifetime savings with the accused credit society after being promised a lucrative interest rate. However, they allegedly used the money and fled the city.
An FIR was filed by the Vanrai police in Goregaon against Ramcharan Tiwari, 39, his father Alakram Tiwari 59 and wife Nisha, 36, who ran the Ma ATM Cooperative Credit Society from Goregaon (East).
Early this year, the accused offered lucrative interest to Gupta to deposit his savings with their society on fixed deposit.
Convinced, Gupta had been depositing his savings with Tiwari’s credit society. Like him, many others also deposited their money with the Tiwaris. However, Gupta and 20 other depositors discovered that the Tiwaris misused the funds and closed their office before fleeing in April this year. Following this, the depositors approached police.
“The Tiwari family has been living in our neighbourhood for years and they ran the credit society business… We trusted them and deposited out hard earned money, but they defrauded us,” said Gupta.
“We suspect that there are many other victims in Andheri Jogeshwari and other western and northern suburbs,” Gupta added.
Gupta’s brother said that the accused had promised interest rates better than other credit societies and duped many small businessmen and even daily workers.
Police have booked the accused under sections 409, 420 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code and relevant sections of Maharashtra Protection of Depositors Act.
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