Gujarat: Man held in Rs 1.65 crore Rajpath Club cheating case

Late on Tuesday night, a man, identified as Hitesh Desai, wanted in the Rs 1.65 crore Rajpath Club cheating case was arrested. The accused, an employee of the club, would sell membership of inactive members to new members and dupe the club.

Desai surrendered himself to Vastrapur police after he got to know of the complaint having been filed against him. A primary probe into the case revealed that he had used the money to go to Bangkok. He later returned to Ahmedabad and hid at his relative's place.

Inspector MM Jadeja said, "During interrogation, he revealed that he was the only person who was involved in the racket and denied the involvement of other staff. But we suspect that there must be more people involved as the entire scheme cannot be done by one person alone and we have started an investigation in that direction."

A complaint was lodged with the Vastrapur police on February 14 by Amit Patel, General Manager of the Rajpath Club. Patel had noticed that memberships of dead members appeared as active in the club's data. It was later revealed that new members were holding the old inactive memberships.

During investigation, club authorities came to know that 38 new members were duped by Desai, who worked in the Human Resources department, by selling them inactive accounts. He managed to make Rs 1.65 crore out of it.