          Fraudsters cheats woman in Jammu in ‘Hera-Pheri’ style
Aman Zutshi
Jammu: A fraudster firm has cheated a woman of Rs 55 lakh in Jammu by allegedly promising her to double her money investment in a month and made her to deposit Rs 55 lakh in their firm.
According to the report, The scammed happened when a fraudster came to the house of victim woman namely Renu Sharma with a proposal to double her money in short period of time and lured her to pay to Rs 55 lakh as investment in their company, and when she did in installments the fraud company of Chandigarh and its employees disappeared.
It seems the scammers has imitated “Phir Hera Pheri” film’s con idea to deceive the woman & her relatives who invested money in this Chandigarh based firm.
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Taking to the media, Mrs Renu Sharma, said, ” On 15th May a boy came to our house from a company based in Trikuta Nagar”.
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“He told us to invest money in their firm to double it he is our friend. I thought if we do that it will help my specially-abled daughter”, she said wailing.
“After five months I grew suspicious of them as often he used to visit us monthly and I used to go them after every 15 days to deposit the cash”, she added weeping.
“They made us wait whole day when we use to go their office to ask them to return our money”, she said sobbing.
“We used to sleep on footpaths and the firm has badly harassed us people who gave money us to deposit use to come to our house and we used to hide to save ourselves from them”, she claimed.
“We used to spend 10-15K to ply to Chandigarh but company used to apprise us that they don’t have money to return us”, she alleged.
“The fraud company has tormented us much due to which my husband became paralysed I didn’t had money even to take him to DMC”, she accused.
“I went to Trikuta Nagar police and the SSP called the firm owner and I don’t know what happened whether he took bribe from the scammers cause he has released them”, she asserted.
“The five cheques of Rs 3 lakh which the company gave me got bounced. We invested Rs 55 lakh in their firm”, she said.
“After five months they began to show their true colors when they didn’t gave us monthly commission of maturity investment”, she shared.
“They also took us to a picnic and encouraged us to invest more money. Manish Gandhi is the scammer who scammed 15-20 people”, she asserted.
“Our invested money has been used to give us monthly commission this is how they used as pawns to ransack us”, she said.
