Petlawad : Continuous frauds occurring with the underprivileged and medium-class investors has not only upset the people but has also filled them with intense rage. Last month, a firm named ‘Aai-Mata Marketing’, took 3500 rupees as application money to grant a loan of one lakh rupees per person and fled away with the money. However, they were caught with the help of police.
In-spite of the action being taken against the accused, the deprived have lost their hard-earned money in the fraud. Rampant frauds these days have put up a question mark on the government. Buying and selling of replica seals and stationary of various banks and post-offices and yet no department is concerned about this clutter.
A recent hoax was observed in the working of post-office savings bank, when an account holder applied for another account through an agent. When he received his new pass-book of the other account, the account number imprinted on the pass-book was in decreasing order than that of his previous account number.
As per the logic, a new account should have an account number greater than the previous one. The account-holder suspected the mess and went to the post-office and inquired about his account where his balance showed up to be nil. This is when the swindle created by the agent was noticed.
The account-holders lodged a FIR against the agent under which the police arrested agent Sandeep Munat and his mother Aasha Devi. Since Monday morning, approximately 200 people had gathered outside the post-office. They were people were duped by the agent. Sanjula, a resident of Jhanda Bazaar, was duped of 1,30,000 rupees whereas Rajendra Chaturvedi was duped of 22,50,000 rupees. There were other account holders as well, who were also conned.
