The V. B. Nagar police have registered a case against a couple Nasreen Noormohammad Shaikh alias Priya Arun Bharaskale and her husband Arun Krishnaji Bharaskale for allegedly cheating five people of Rs 30.5 lakh under the pretext of renting out flats on a heavy deposit basis.

Couple Posed as Flat Owners

According to the police, the accused posed as property owners and gained the victims’ trust by offering to rent out flats in Mumbai’s HDIL complex at Kurla (West) for large deposit amounts.

The victims later discovered that the couple neither owned the flats nor had any legal authority to rent them out.

Electrician Among Victims

As per the FIR, the complainant Mohammad Irfan Abdul Rashid Ansari (56), an electrician residing in the HDIL area with his family, told police that he had been

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