Internationally-renowned chef Bimba Nayak and her relations misplaced greater than Rs1.62 crore to a lady con, who posed as a public prosecutor, having a number of instances of dishonest and impersonation in her title. The accused Shweta Badgujar, at the moment in judicial custody in reference to different offences, duped the complainant beneath a number of pretexts starting from gold cash enterprise to profitable actual property provide.
Particulars of rip-off
In her grievance lodged with the Dadar police, Nayak stated that she met Badjuar in 2021 throughout a style present during which the latter was a participant. The con launched herself as a prosecutor and advised the chef about her ”contacts” in Dubai. She advised Nayak that she might assist her safe good alternatives in Dubai-based 5 star inns. Badjuar additional stated that her brother, Piyush Pradhan, is a senior official on the Mumbai Airport Customs division. She trapped Nayak, saying that her sibling retains shopping for seized gold cash throughout auctions and later sells them at cheap costs.
After repeated proposals, the complainant and her household agreed to make investments. Initially, Badgujar gave income and managed to persuade Nayak’s different kins to enter into the enterprise. When the chef’s daughter, who lives within the USA, did not present curiosity, Badgujar got here up with an actual property scheme. She proposed to assist the aggrieved purchase a flat in Bliss Casa House positioned, in Dadar West, for Rs1 crore, that’s method lesser than the precise value. In elements, they paid Rs68 lakh for the flat. Nonetheless, Badgujar did not present the flat’s settlement copy.
Subsequent, she defrauded Nayak on the pretext of promoting luxurious watches procured by means of her brother. Regardless of giving over Rs15 lakh, the chef did not get any timepiece. Sensing one thing amiss, Nayak and her household began to inquire about Badgujar and slowly the items of the fraudulent puzzle began to fall in place. The aggrieved got here to know that there was no saleable flat in Bliss Casa. The last word shock for the household was the data that there isn’t any Customs officer named Piyush Pradhan.
Senior Inspector Rajendra Avhad stated that they are going to request the court docket for Badgujar’s custodial interrogation. She has been named in three instances on the Bandra police station, and one every at Mulund, Vakola, Oshiwara, Kandivali, DN Nagar and Thane’s Shrinagar police station. Primarily based on Nayak’s grievance, a case has been registered in opposition to her beneath the Indian Penal Code sections 406 (legal breach of belief) and 420 (dishonest).