According to the police, the modus operandi of the case involved awarding a project and then sending two accomplices to sabotage it, resulting in violation of the deadline in the agreement.
The Shivajinagar police have arrested one person and booked two others for allegedly duping a person of Rs27 lakh using the pretext of awarding a lucrative data entry project.
According to the police, the modus operandi of the case involved awarding a project and then sending two accomplices to sabotage it, resulting in violation of the deadline in the agreement.
The police said Rajesh Jain has been arrested, while Ashwin Ramesh and Pankaj Chavan have been booked. The victim, Nitin Jawalkar, had lodged a complaint at Shivajinagar police station.
According to the police, Jawalkar and his partners, Christopher Paul and Kaustubh Pisalkar run a firm, Elements Technology & Solution, located on Sinhagad Road.
According to the complaint, Jain posed as a director of RP Virtual Vision Softcom. He approached Jawalkar and offered a data entry project, which he claimed was from an American company and involved converting a book into an e-book.
The suspect allegedly offered lucrative returns on completion of the project. He charged Jawalkar Rs13 lakh as fee for granting the project and took Rs8.5 lakh from him in two installments.
According to the agreement, the project had a deadline of one month, failing which the fee and the returns would be forfeited. The project was handed over on October 26.
Police inspector Maya Bankar of Shivajinagar police station said that Jain’s modus operandi was that after granting the project, he would send two of his accomplices to work at the victim’s office for the data entry project. The accomplices would conceal the fact that they were sent by the suspect.
“In this case too, the two accomplices started working at Jawalkar’s firm. They secretly infected the computers in Jawalkar’s office with a virus. As a result, all the data got erased. It took two days to remove the virus from the computers,” the police officials said.
Jain continued to exert pressure on Jawalkar to complete his project. “Jawalkar failed to keep his commitment and refused to return the money to the complainant,” Bankar added.
Jawalkar told DNA, “On October 26, Jain gave us the project and we had to submit it within a month. We checked the cellphones of the two new employees and found that they were in touch with Jain. Hence, we decided to lodge a police complaint.”
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