Excelsior Correspondent
KATHUA, June 1: The police has launched a manhunt to nab one cheat who has duped the people of over Rs 70 lakh on promising the placement of their wards abroad.
SSP Kathua, Mohan Lal told Excelsior that after coming to know that many people in the district have been duped of over Rs 70 lakh during last one year by a cheat identified as Sanjeev Kumar of Mathura, UP on the promise of jobs to their wards abroad and who later fled with the money registered a FIR number 160 under Section 420 RPC in last month against him.
He said the police will send teams to UP and also contact Mathura Police to know whereabouts of the cheat. It will also try to ascertain whether the cheat has not defrauded the people in other parts of the country.
He said that Sanjeev Kumar had floated a company whose address is also not known and police came to know of the matter only after the cheat fled from the area. Even it does not know the address of the cheat, he added.
Earlier addressing a press conference Ravi Sharma, S S Sasan and others said that the cheat duped the people of the district of Rs 70 lakh in cash and promised the placement of their children abroad. But later he fled along the money leaving them high and dry.
They said the police has registered a FIR but the cheat was not arrested till date.
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