Mumbai: Cine writer files Rs 1cr case against DHFL

Mumbai:

A case of cheating

,

forgery

, breach of trust and criminal conspiracy was registered against directors, auditors and chief executive officer of DHFL for cheating a journalist and cine writer of Rs 1 crore at MRA Marg police station on Thursday. Rommel Rodrigues (49) approached police, but when a complaint was not registered, he went to court, which directed police to probe the matter. An FIR was then registered.

Those named as accused are

Dewan Housing Finance Corp Ltd

., its chairman and managing director Kapil Wadhawan, firm director Dheeraj Wadhawan, auditors and chartered accountant. He told court DHFL offered to the public fixed deposit and non-convertible debentures. DHFL and its office-bearers’ intention was to float deposit schemes as fixed deposits, promising better returns, offering an interest rate of 8.40% pa, he stated. He added that the FD scheme was engineered so that DHFL could receive lump-sum deposits in their bank account from investors/depositors.

He told TOI thousands of depositors were in the scheme. tnn