Kothrud resident duped of over Rs 28 Lakh in loan scam; Police registers case
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A 49-year-old Kothrud resident has been allegedly duped of more than Rs 28 lakh in a loan fraud.
As per further information from the FIR accessed by Pune Pulse, under the guise of authorizing a loan, the accused—Vinod Ravindra Shendge, Akshay Vinod Shendge, Prashant Bhalchandra Bandewar, and Rohan Chandrasekhar Metkari—are accused of defrauding complainant Milind Phutane of Rs 28,22,400.
The event happened on September 2, 2022, and it happened again on April 23, 2023. The complaint states that he applied for government assistance after allegedly suffering large business losses during the COVID-19 lockdown. A friend of the complainant named Prashant Bandewar asserted that Vinod Shendge could get a bank loan for Rs 50 crores. He obtained business loans from financiers to investigate this possibility.
Prashant then notified the complainant of a connection to a government loan, saying that Vinod Shendge, a panel consultant at another government bank, could make it happen. By promising a government bank loan approval, the accused won his trust and extracted Rs 28,22,400 from him.
When the complainant asked questions about the loan after the payment, he found that he had been duped. The complainant claimed that the accused threatened to have her expelled from Pune, avoided giving back the money, and tortured her mentally. The police were notified of the fraud by the complainant.
A case has been registered against the 4 accused at Kothrud Police Station under Sections 406, 420, 34, 504, 506 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Further investigation into the matter is going on.
Shreyas Vange
