Thane: City Police arrested two people from Mumbra in the Thane District because they cheated 25 consumers of the power supply company with a 19.6 lakh Rs Nada.
The defendant poses as a company employee for consumers and promises to reduce or adjust electricity bills.
Police said that the defendant was identified as Rafi Ahmed Shaikh (39) and Abdulla Bilal Shaikh (25) a police officer said that the company had received complaints in connection with cheating by some unknown people.
People accused of approaching consumers and offering to get their strength bills reduced.
Then, he collected money and gave them a fake receipt, and escaped with the money.
In the same way, the owner of milk from Sabegaon was cheated by one of the defendants who offered to reduce Rs 68,000 power bills and collected fifty percent of the milk owner.
When payment was not adjusted in the next bill, the victim filed a complaint to the police Shil Daighar who registered a violation under various parts of fraud, forgery.
When the power supply company received many similar complaints, they approached the police launching the probe.
Police officers focused on charges on the basis of CCTV recordings they get from various places.
The police said that during the government it was revealed that the defendant gathered the details of the pendency and approached consumers as a company employee and offered to get the number of their bills reduced and collected the number and escape after issuing false receipts to them.
The police also confiscated expensive cellphones brought from poor money.
Police Shil Daighar conducted further investigation into evil.
Thane: Two held from Mumbra to force electrical company employees, cheat consumers
