Man duped of Rs 75,000 by sales executive at car showroom in Mumbai

MUMBAI: A sales executive of a

car showroom

in

Agripada

who under pretext of availing a private taxi, and its permit took the initial payment of Rs 75,000 and duped a poor man, was arrested by the Agripada police. Agripada police arrested Iqbal Siddiqui and are now looking for his accomplice Shahid Sayyed.

According to the police, in December 2019 a taxi driver Sanjay Kadam had gone to a car showroom and met sales manager to buy a car to run as a private taxi. Iqbal, asked him to pay Rs 10,000 as booking amount.

Two days later he asked for Rs 15,000 for driving license and later 75,000 for permits. But he never got the car, when he checked with the showroom, the executive was sacked.