PUNE: The Deccan Gymkhana police are investigating a Junnar-based jeweller’s complaint, accusing five men from city of duping him and his three friends of Rs65.7 lakh in total, on the promise of helping them secure MBBS seats for their wards in a medical college either in Pune or Indore.
After failing to secure the seats, jeweller Sanjay Ramesh Khatri (55) and one of his friends sent their daughter and son, respectively, to medical universities in Ukraine, from where their wards returned recently amid the war. Another friend got his ward admitted to an Ayurveda college and the fourth person to a medical college in Dhule.
The monetary transaction in the cheating case lodged on Monday took place between 2019 and the first half of 2021. the friends first made an RTGS transfer of Rs50 lakh for MBBS seats at a college in Pune. Later, they paid another Rs15.70 lakh in cash as the men convinced them that they could get admission in either of two medical colleges in Indore instead. But this failed as well.
Khatri and his friends demanded their money back and approached the police.
Senior police inspector (SPI) Murlidhar Karpe of the Deccan Gymkhana police station told TOI, “We are searching for the five men, who were operating from a rented office on Ghole Road.”
