Couple booked for fraud

Fatehgarh Sahib, August 24

Fatehgarh Sahib police have registered a case of cheating against a couple for allegedly refusing to make a registry of a house even after taking Rs 9.95 lakh as advance payment for the agreement. The case was registered after an enquiry report of the SP (Investigation).

Manpreet Singh Deol SHO Fatehgarh Sahib said Praveen Kumari, a resident of Ward No 10, Sirhind, had filed a complaint against Rajesh Kumar of Sirhind. The complainant claimed that she had entered into an agreement on October 5, 2019, to purchase the accused’s house and the agreement was also signed by his wife Shruti. The deal was fixed at Rs14 lakh and Rs 9.95 lakh were transferred into the account of the accused as advance payment, the complainant said.

The date for registering the deed was fixed for March 30, 2020, but Rajesh and his wife did not come for the registration, following which the date was extended to April 25, 2020. When the complainant went to the tehsil office to get the house registered she was told that Rajesh had already signed over the house to Sanjeev Kumar and Manmohan Singh and they had got the house registered in the name of Damanjeet Kaur on. The SHO said that neither had the accused returned the advance payment nor had he refunded the money to the complainant.

The SHO said the complaint was marked by the SSP to SP (Investigation) for enquiry and the SP’s report confirmed that Rajesh and his wife had cheated Praveen Kumari by taking an advance payment from her but selling it to someone else.