The Mumbai constabulary person registered a lawsuit against a pistillate for allegedly duping an 82-year aged retired IIT prof by acting arsenic his caretaker and getting his properties, including his 3 flats, transferred to her sanction aft sending him to an aged property home, officials said.
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The full worth of the properties and different assets was Rs 6 crore, they said.
“The incidental came to airy erstwhile the retired Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) professor's son, who stays successful Pimpri country adjacent Pune metropolis came to Mumbai past period to conscionable his father, but recovered that the second was not astatine home,” an authoritative of the Powai constabulary presumption said.
“As helium came to cognize that his begetter was sent to an aged property location successful Vikhroli by the caretaker pistillate successful February 2025, the lad went to the installation and met him. After coming to cognize the series of events, helium took his begetter backmost to his Powai level and approached the police,” helium said.
Based connected the ailment filed by the retired professor, a lawsuit of cheating and fraud nether applicable sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) was registered against the caretaker pistillate Nikita Naik connected June 8, helium said.
The fraud involving much than Rs 6 crore, occurred betwixt January 2017 and May 7 this year. The retired prof utilized to enactment unsocial successful the level located successful Glen Heights Apartment astatine Hirandani Garden successful Powai, helium said.
He got acquainted with Naik successful 2017, erstwhile helium utilized to sojourn the plot to practise yoga. The pistillate past started coming to the retired professor's level often and aft taking him into confidence, started surviving astatine the level arsenic his caretaker to assistance him successful his regular routines, the constabulary said.
After a mates of years, arsenic the victim's eyesight weakened, helium started facing issues successful operating his mobile telephone and carrying retired banking transactions. The pistillate past obtained his banking details and each his ATM cards successful her possession and started making fiscal transactions connected his behalf, they said.
In April, the pistillate took him to the registration bureau nether the guise of providing ineligible assistance and asked him to motion documents without his knowledge. She got 1 3rd of his spot transferred successful her sanction arsenic a acquisition deed, the constabulary authoritative said.
She besides collected property-related documents, golden ornaments, signed cheques, recognition cards, debit cards and different important documents, helium said.
Her wrongdoing came to airy aft the victim's lodging nine informed his lad astir getting an exertion to transportation the stock certificate successful the woman's name, the authoritative added.
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