Senior citizen duped of 63L

Nagpur: The Economic Offence Wing (EOW) team of the city crime branch has arrested a Delhi call centre owner for allegedly duping a retired man of Rs63 lakh under the assurance of doubling the returns in a year. The accused has been identified as Pramod Sharma, 35, a resident of West Vihar, Delhi. He was arrested a few days ago and produced in the court on Tuesday to extend his police custody. Sharma had duped Sadar resident Nani Sinha, a retired director from a Power Company.
PI RB Giddey and his team consisting of API Mangesh Desai and Pramod Sanap, head constable Prakash Patil and others conducted search operations and nabbed Sharma from Delhi.
Police said that Pramod runs a call centre with 19 employees at Delhi. The employees are assigned to make calls to the senior citizens and inform them about such profitmaking schemes.
Sinha had received a call in August 2014. The caller informed Sinha of getting double returns of the invested amount in a year. Influenced by the scheme, Sinha invested Rs50 lakhs.
As guided by Sharma, Sinha deposited the cash in parts in different bank accounts. However, Sinha did not get any returns after a year. He called the call centre where a woman asked him to invest Rs13 lakh to get benefits of the first scheme. Sinha followed the instructions.
Sinha told police that till December 2015, he had deposited cash in 51 different bank accounts. Sinha realized about the fraud when he did not get the returns and even the call centre started ignoring his calls. He reported the matter to Sadar police station and the case was transferred to EOW.
Police informed that Sharma‘s bank locker has cash Rs26.17 lakh. Police has seized a luxury car from his residence. Police are probing other people involved in the case.