GURUGRAM: Three men have been charged with cheating after they allegedly cheated property buyers of Rs 1 crore by posing as real estate company sales representatives.
The fraudsters posed as agents of Orris Infrastructure and sold some plots on behalf of the company.
This came to light after Puneet Sain, the company’s representative, registered a cheating case against Gurmet Singh, Parminder from Palam Vihar, and others involved in the scam.
Sain alleged that in April 2023, they found that the accused took cash in the name of token money from the victims to facilitate the plot allotment, and the buyers never received the confirmation letter, they visited the company’s office and found out about the scam.
“On April 4, two customers, Amit Jain, and Vipul Jain, approached us saying that they paid Rs 3.5 lakh in cash to Gurmet and Parminder. Each of them also gave checks for Rs 10.61 lakh in the company’s name. The fraudsters used to ask victims to issue checks in the company’s name to appear legitimate,” the complainant said, adding that “the accused took a token amount in the form of cash from the victims for facilitating the plot allotment in one of our ventures, the Wood View Residency Project at Sector-89.”
The complainant explained, “The same fraudsters duped about 10 to 11 victims for about Rs 1 crore and collected cash towards the token amount for plot allotment.”
A case was registered on Tuesday under sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC at Sector-10 PS against the accused.
“We registered a case on the complaint of Orris Infrastructure Pvt Ltd, and now the Economic Offences Wing will investigate it,” said police.
