The Cyber Crime Cell of the Chandigarh Police, on Wednesday, registered a case of business fraud which was committed through Internet.
The police has booked six persons in a case of cheating and various sections of the Information Technology (IT) Act. The case has been registered on the complaint of V K Malhotra, an Industrial Area based businessman.
Those booked are: UK resident David Afburn Cassabery, Belgium-based Charles William, Sanjeev Malhotra of Malhotra Enterprises in Mumbai, Surinder and Joseth – all of whom took Rs 17.31 lakhs in cash from the complainant and supplied him with fake quartz stones.
According to the complainant, he lost Rs 17.3 lakh to a fraud proposal received in response to his online advertisement.
Malhotra ended up paying the amount for purchase of four-kilogram quartz stone, which infact turned out to be another stone ‘Galena’, which cost around Rs 4,000.