Brother-sister duped man for Rs 17 L on pretext of investment

Case registered at Cidco police station,

Lokmat News Network

Chhatrapait Sambhajinagar: A brother-sister duo duped a man h from Hudco of Rs 17.51 lakh by promising double returns through investment in an event company.

A case was registered at Cidco police station on Friday against Sanjana Devidas Chaudhary and Suyash Devidas Chaudhary (both from Vista Residency, Baner, Pune).

The 33-year-old man works in a private company. He met Sanjana at a bank in Pune through his brother. As the conversation grew, they became good friends. Then Sanjana informed him about her event company.

Within a few days, she persuaded the man to invest, saying that she had received a job for a big event of the Muthoot Group.

Then, the man sent a total of Rs 5 lakh between March 20 and March 27. Sanjana signed an agreement to share the profits equally. She took again Rs 3.40 lakh from the young man on May 21, saying that she had received a big event from a newspaper on May 12, 2025.

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Money sought by giving different excuses

Sanjana then sought Rs 17.51 lakh from the man by giving the reason of the events of various big companies until June 2025. She also signed agreements from time to time. However, she was reluctant to pay the money. She even passed the time by saying that her father had passed away.

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No cheque encashed

When the man pressed for money, Sanjana and Suyash repeatedly gave him cheques of certain amounts. All of them bounced. The man lodged a complaint with the Cidco police. After coming to know about this, Sanjana contacted him and asked him to withdraw the complaint and on November 8, he gave three more cheques for the remaining amount, giving Rs 80,000. However, not a single cheque could be encashed.

She created fake orders for all the event work and sent them to the man, deceiving him. Interestingly, it was later revealed that she had sent all this money to her brother Suyash and her mother's bank accounts.