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Mohali, September 8
The police booked a local industrialist, along with his wife and father, in a case of conspiracy and fraud of around Rs 1 crore with his Chandigarh-based childhood friend, here.
The suspects have been identified as PS Dhanoa, his wife Rajwinder Kaur and father Jaspreet Singh, all residents of Sector 91, here. They have been booked on the complaint of Chandigarh-based jeweller Rohit Jain, a resident of Sector 100, Mohali.
A case has been registered against the trio under Sections 420, 406 and 120B of the IPC at the Sohana police station.
In his complaint, Jain alleged that he and the suspects, who were earlier living in their neighbourhood in Sector 21, Chandigarh, were childhood friends. He alleged that Dhanoa, who was running the business of AC machines in an industrial unit in Sector 82, Mohali, had approached him with his family members and sought financial help in December 2015 following which he gave him a sum of Rs 1 crore in a span of three years from 2015 to 2018.
“When I started asking them to return my money, the family members kept making excuses. Later, Dhanoa entered into an agreement with me to sell his industrial unit,” claimed Jain.
He alleged that firstly the set date for the registry was April 13, 2018. Prior to the date of registration, Dhanoa, along with his family members, approached him and requested to extend the date of the registry to October 15, 2018 and asked him (Jain) to pay Rs 5 lakh more.
“Again prior to the next date of registration (October 15, 2018), the family members requested me to extend the date of the registry to May 30, 2019 and demanded Rs 5 lakh more,” alleged Jain, adding that then both parties entered into a fresh agreement under which Dhanoa gave him three post-dated cheques as security.
Jain alleged that recently he came to know that the plot was sold to some other party and now the family was found to be out of reach.
“I am told that the family has shifted to Canada,” claimed Jain. The police said investigations were on in the case.
Dhanoa declared PO in cheque-bounce case
A court has also declared PS Dhanoa as a proclaimed offender (PO) in a cheque-bounce case. Giving details of the case in this regard, Avtar Singh, Manager (legal) of Cheema Boilers, said the company had hired services of Dhanoa’s firm for installation of an air-conditioner plant in their new office last year. “We paid him around Rs 42 lakh in advance, but he did not start the work. Later after our insistence, he returned us around Rs 12 lakh and for the remaining balance of Rs 30 lakh, he gave us a cheque for Rs 11 lakh last year. As the cheque in question got bounced, we approached the court. The court declared him as a proclaimed offender a couple of days ago in the case,” said Avtar.
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