AHMEDABAD: A retired Mamlatdar, resident of the Vastrapur area of city, filed a complaint with Vastrapur police on Saturday alleging that two postal department agents — husband and wife, cheated him of Rs 51.85 lakh in garb of investments in various postal schemes.
Kishor Pandya, 64, resident of Goyal Plaza on Judges Bungalows Road, states in the FIR that the two accused — Haresh Srivastava and his wife Kajal Shah, residents of Satellite, took the money from him between 2010 and 2019 to invest in nine different accounts. But eight of those nine accounts were fake and they had deposited a meagre amount of Rs 14,000 in one account only.
Pandya said in the FIR that he treated the Srivastava and Shah like his own family.
The had approached him in 2010 to invest in recurring and savings account of postal department and promised good returns.
Convinced with this, Pandya had invested Rs 51.85 lakh in nine accounts and the couple gave him passbooks for different accounts which also had entries of investments in those passbooks, states the FIR.
In September 2019, Pandya checked his investments in Panjrapole branch of postal department and found that eight accounts were fake and seals of the department and entries were forged.
When Pandya questioned Shah, she told him that she will return his money. When Pandya did not get his money back for around seven months, he filed a complaint of cheating, breach of trust and forgery along with other charges under IPC.
Inspector M M Jadeja said that one of the accused — Haresh Srivastava had died last year, and Shah was yet to be arrested in the case.
Kishor Pandya, 64, resident of Goyal Plaza on Judges Bungalows Road, states in the FIR that the two accused — Haresh Srivastava and his wife Kajal Shah, residents of Satellite, took the money from him between 2010 and 2019 to invest in nine different accounts. But eight of those nine accounts were fake and they had deposited a meagre amount of Rs 14,000 in one account only.
Pandya said in the FIR that he treated the Srivastava and Shah like his own family.
The had approached him in 2010 to invest in recurring and savings account of postal department and promised good returns.
Convinced with this, Pandya had invested Rs 51.85 lakh in nine accounts and the couple gave him passbooks for different accounts which also had entries of investments in those passbooks, states the FIR.
In September 2019, Pandya checked his investments in Panjrapole branch of postal department and found that eight accounts were fake and seals of the department and entries were forged.
When Pandya questioned Shah, she told him that she will return his money. When Pandya did not get his money back for around seven months, he filed a complaint of cheating, breach of trust and forgery along with other charges under IPC.
Inspector M M Jadeja said that one of the accused — Haresh Srivastava had died last year, and Shah was yet to be arrested in the case.
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