Cumin trader duped of Rs 40L by Varanasi man

Ahmedabad: A trader of agriculture products, mainly cumin seeds, filed a complaint with the city crime branch on Friday alleging that a man from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh and his two other family members had duped him of Rs 40 lakh by not making payment for 24, 120 kg of cumin seeds he sent to them in June 25, and they had later stopped responding to his calls from September 9.

Pratik Gautam, resident of Greenwoods in Ognaj, said in his FIR with crime branch that the accused Ranjit Kesari had in April this year contacted his cousin and business development officer Vinay Gautam seeking to buy cumin seeds from him.

On May 28, Gautam sent him the first consignment of 1,000 kg cumin seeds for which Kesari had paid 1.90 lakh to Gautam’s firm.

Later, Kesari along with his son Lakshminarayan Kesari and his wife Geeta Kesari sought more 25,000 kg of cumin seeds from Gautam.

Gautam said in the complaint that he had sent 24,120 kg of cumin seeds worth Rs 46 lakh in a truck as entire 25,000 kg could not be loaded. The consignment was received by Kesari family on June 25.

He alleged in the FIR that Kesari family paid around Rs 6 lakh earlier, but did not pay the entire amount .