Ahmedabad: Man loses Rs 17 lakh to masks fraud

AHMEDABAD: The city crime branch sleuths on Tuesday rounded up Atul Bhatt, 63, of Ghatlodia for cheating a man on the pretext of supplying 2 lakh masks for Rs 25 lakh. Bhatt, through an associate, allegedly took Rs 17,50,000 as security deposit. However, they did not deliver the masks and switched off their mobile phones and closed their office at BG Tower, Delhi Darwaza.
According to the complaint, Dipen Patel of JJ Enterprise had taken the order of 2 lakh masks from the complainant.
ACP, B V Gohil, said that during interrogation it came to light that Bhatt’s associate Satish, who lives in Vapi, had contacted the complainant using Dipen Patel as an alias.
Gohil said Bhatt has a criminal record. “In 2001, he caught by Navrangpura, Ghatlodia, Ellisbridge police and the CBI in a bank housing loan fraud case,” Gohil said.