Navi Mumbai:
A Worli woman (52) was allegedly cheated of Rs 3.5 lakh by a travel agent and his accomplice from Pune. The agents took the money from her on the pretext of booking two air tickets to San Francisco.
CBD police station inspector (crime) Shyam Shinde said, “We have registered an FIR against Parthavi Chandel and Amit Singh. As Sushma Sharma transferred Rs 3.5 lakh for air tickets to San Francisco for her sister and her husband to Singh’s Pune account, we have transferred the case to Pune.”
Sharma has said on July 30, she contacted a website for cheap tickets to San Francisco. “She received a call from Chandel claiming to be from Tucan Travels. He offered a discounted price of Rs 1.75 lakh per ticket to San Francisco and asked her to deposit Rs 3.5 lakh in the firm’s bank account,” said the police. After she transferred the money, he went incommunicado.
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