Three booked in Thane for cheating Kolkata merchant of Rs 60 lakh in sugar trade

Police has registered a case after a Kolkata-based merchant claimed he was cheated of Rs 60 lakh by three persons, including two from Navi Mumbai, an official said.

As per the complainant, one of the accused, who hails from Gurugram in Haryana, approached him with help to procure 135 tonnes of sugar for export from the trading firm of another accused, who hails from Navi Mumbai, newswire PTI reported.

“The three collected Rs 60 lakh from the Kolkata-based merchant but never delivered the sugar consignment. They also provided him fake documents. The accused have been charged with cheating, criminal breach of trust, forgery and other offences,” the NRI Sagari police station official said.

Meanwhile, a man ended his life allegedly due to harassment over a parking allotment dispute in Titwala in Thane district after which police booked four persons for abetment of suicide, a police official said.

The official said that Bhushan Lotan More (33) committed suicide Thursday afternoon by jumping in front of a mail train between Khadavali and Titwala stations.