Ajmer man wanting 2,000 notes exchanged loses 11 lakh

Ahmedabad: A transporter from Ajmer, Rajasthan, on Saturday filed a complaint with Gandhinagar Sector 7 police, accusing six men of duping him of Rs 11.38 lakh on the pretext of exchanging notes of Rs 2,000 denomination which were discontinued since May 19, 2023. Bharat Singh Yadav, 50, stated in his FIR that he knew one of the accused, Dalal Lalwani, who is also a transporter from Ajmer. Lalwani had, in Nov 2023, allegedly told Yadav at a tea stall in Gandhinagar that he knew somebody who could exchange the discontinued notes. Yadav told Lalwani that a man from Ajmer named Vikas Sharma had Rs 2,000 denomination notes worth Rs 100 crore, which he wanted exchanged. Lalwani introduced Yadav and Sharma to another accused, Shailesh Oti, who claimed he worked with a Gandhinagar firm and promised to help exchange the notes for a 15% commission. Yadav told police that on Jan 24 this year, he paid Rs 10 lakh towards the commission by cheque written in favour of a trust, as instructed by Lalwani and Oti. An additional Rs 1.38 lakh were paid through cheque to another aide, Deepak Agrawal. Lalwani and Oti later introduced Yadav to the other accused — Sachin Jagota, Gurmeet Singh and Tushar Giri from Delhi — who were to Yadav and Sharma Rs 500 notes in lieu of Rs 2,000 notes. Yadav alleged that the accused then pretended that the notes they were supposed to give Yadav and Sharma had been seized by police and went incommunicado. Yadav alleged that the accused had floated a fake trust to cheat him. Sector 7 police have filed a complaint of breach of trust, cheating, forgery and abetment against the six accused.
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