Ajmer bizman duped of ₹29L in bid to get food chain franchise

Ajmer: A businessman in Ajmer was duped of Rs 29 lakh in his effort to get a franchise of famous food chain. The victim lodged an FIR at Christian Ganj police station here on Monday.As per the FIR, the complainant, Jaikishan of Vaishali Nagar, was asked to pay the fees of license, registration and a no-objection certificate (NOC). He said he got a call from a man named Deepak Sharma telling him that the famous food chain company wanted to allot an outlet on franchise in Ajmer. Sharma sent him an online form to fill up, and Jaikishan happily filled it up, providing his PAN details and other documents in February. Jaikishan received in March an e-mail on the company’s letterhead demanding that he submit copies of registry and other documents and pay Rs 2.65 lakh as GST.Jaikishan said he paid the money and then got a call on April 17 from someone identifying himself as Rahul, a representative of the company, and asking him to deposit Rs 7.75 lakh. Jaikishan said he was then asked to deposit a license fee and the fee for the NOC in April and that he thus paid a total of Rs 26 lakh for formalities till April 24. When Jaikishan asked for a meeting so that he could start the outlet of the food chain in Ajmer, he was on April 26 asked to pay Rs 40 lakh as deposit for the paperwork. But Jaikishan refused to pay. After this, he found the phones of the callers switched off for days on end.
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