Kurukshetra: Police on Thursday arrested a man from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh (UP), for allegedly cheating a Haryana resident of Rs 9 lakh on the pretext of providing his son a place in a team of Indian Premier League (IPL).
Disclosing this, Kurukshetra headquarters deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Subhash Chander on Friday said Atul Maurya of Sharda Nagar, Kanpur, was produced in the district court on Thursday, which granted his two-day police remand for investigation.
DSP said that on April 4, 2019, Subhash Chander, who works with a company based in Vegetable Market of Kurukshetra, had lodged a complaint at Kurukshetra University (KU) police station.
He said Subhash in his complaint had stated that he dealt in fruits and property and his son Vikrant is a cricket trainee at Greater Noida for 3-4 years.
“In October 2018, when Subhash went to meet his son at Noida, he told him that he had talked to Karan Singh and his wife Kasturi Gajla who lives in Greator Noida. They had promised him reserve selection in the Mumbai Indians of IPL and demanded Rs 10 lakh for the same. He asked Vikrant to arrange a meeting with Karan. In the meeting, Karan lured Subhash with talks that he has got many players selected in the IPL teams and kept the demand of Rs 10 lakh,” said DSP Subhash. “They gave them Rs 2.5 lakh in Kurukshetra in November 2018 and another Rs 5 lakh was given on December 3, 2018. Another Rs 1.5 lakh was given on December 19, 2018. In this way, a total of Rs 9 lakh was given to accused Karan and Kasturi. Accused persons did not keep the promise and duped the complainant of cash. Subhash told that Karan had made him talk to Atul Maurya several times over phone during the process when they were promising to settle his son in the IPL team”, further said DSP Subhash.
DSP added the arrests of Atul’s co-accused were pending.