2 persons duped of Rs 77.6 lakh in medical college admission fraud; 6 booked
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Thane (PTI): Two persons from Chhattisgarh and Bengaluru have been allegedly cheated of Rs 77.61 lakh under the pretext of being provided PG course seats at a medical college in Navi Mumbai under management quota, police said on Sunday.
The Nerul police in Navi Mumbai have registered two cases against six persons in this connection, they said.
A 59-year-old man from Raigarh in Chhattisgarh in a police complaint alleged that the six accused promised to get his daughter a postgraduate seat in General Surgery course at a reputed Nerul-based medical college.
Between May 2022 and December 2023, the accused allegedly took Rs 1.27 crore from him. The man later found that all the communication, including the admission confirmation message, joining letter and college documents, were forged, an official from Nerul police station said.
When the complainant enquired about the college admission, the accused returned Rs 85 lakh, but failed to refund the remaining Rs 42 lakh.
After multiple failed attempts to recover the balance amount, the victim approached the police, the official said.
"The accused even used a forged college letterhead to issue an admission letter and misled the complainant with fabricated official communications. This clearly indicates a planned conspiracy," he said.
Police uncovered another similar case, involving three of the six accused persons, as a 54-year-old man from Panathur, Bengaluru, alleged that he was duped of Rs 35.61 lakh after the accused promised admission to his nephew in the same medical college for the MD anesthesia course, the official said.
"In this second case too, the fraud was committed between May 2022 and December 2023. The accused initially took Rs 50 lakh, but refunded only Rs 4.39 lakh, and then stopped responding to the victim's repeated calls and messages," the official said.
The Bengaluru-based complainant was also provided fake documents, including a 'provisional allotment letter' purportedly from the medical counselling committee, a forged university letter, fee structure, joining letter and receipt, all of which were later found to be forged, he said.
"The documents presented were carefully designed to appear authentic and convince the victims. We are verifying whether more people have fallen prey to the same scam," the official said.
The police on Friday registered two FIRs -- one on the complaint of the Chhattisgarh-based man against six persons and the other on the Bengaluru man's complaint against three of those same six accused under Indian Penal Code sections 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust), 465, 467, 468 (forgery), 471 (use of forged documents) and 34 (common intention), the official said.
No arrest has been made so far, he added.
"We are investigating the financial trail and also checking with the institution concerned to determine the extent of the forgery," the official said.
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Informing Pakistan ahead of Operation Sindoor was a crime: Rahul Gandhi on Jaishankar's 'admission'
New Delhi, May 17 (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday hit out at the government for "informing" Pakistan about targeting terror infrastructure as part of Operation Sindoor, saying it was a crime and asking who had authorised it.
In a post on X, Gandhi questioned External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar for publicly admitting that the government of India (GOI) had informed Pakistan of the action and asked how many aircraft the Indian Air Force lost as a result.
"Informing Pakistan at the start of our attack was a crime. EAM has publicly admitted that GOI did it. Who authorised it? How many aircraft did our air force lose as a result?" said Gandhi, the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha.
He also shared an undated video of Jaishankar saying India had informed Pakistan of the action against terror infrastructure on its soil.
Jaishankar can be heard saying in the video, "At the start of the operation, we had sent a message to Pakistan, saying, 'We are striking at terrorist infrastructure and we are not striking at the military.'"
"So the military has the option of standing out and not interfering in this process. They chose not to take that good advice," the minister can be heard saying in the clip.
The Press Information Bureau (PIB), however, has debunked claims that Jaishankar had said India informed Pakistan ahead of Operation Sindoor. In a post on X, the PIB's Fact Check Unit said the minister had not made any such statement and that he was being misquoted.
Operation Sindoor was the Indian offensive against terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) following the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam.
Informing Pakistan at the start of our attack was a crime.
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) May 17, 2025
EAM has publicly admitted that GOI did it.
1. Who authorised it?
2. How many aircraft did our airforce lose as a result? pic.twitter.com/KmawLLf4yW
