The first arrest has been made in Mumbai, where the city police had instigated a suicide case that led to the death of a 30-year-old man who owned a tea stall but his mortgage fraud killed him One person’s actions caused another to lose his life after he pretended to help him secure loan for property before he sold it. The deceased left a note naming six people on it.
On Thursday, Pidoni-based jeweler Sahdev Karmakar was arrested by the police who subsequently closed his shop and went into hiding for some time.
On June 11 last year, Tejas Mahatre, hanged himself. ADR was registered first by Dadar police (DP) but later Jyotsna Autavkar, sister of Tejas Mhatre went ahead and lodged complaint saying that her brother Tejas was sick weeks before killing himself. Depression. She named her brother as Tejas Mhatre living at Gharkul Co-operative Housing Society in Prabhadevi.Debt of Rs 600-700 thousand accrued when Mhatte borrowed this sum for his mother’s treatment resulting from her deteriorating health condition.Mahatma told his sister that he could not afford such high interest rates as such; hence he wanted to mortgage his house and get a lower interest loan instead.“In order to meet an agent called Raguvendra Pujari including Piyush Shah Sahdev Karmakar Mahroof Inamdar Hemant Sawant Urvil Shah,” one officer said.
Those men grabbed the documents and took their signatures even though they took all papers related to their house together with Tejas’ younger brother Tushar. They also took away all documents pertaining to Teja’s house because they intended to mortgage it.In June10th, when bankers came visiting at home with EMI payments which were not cleared it was shocking news for him that he had taken seventy three lakh rupees loan. The next day, he hanged himself. What this investigation has revealed so far is that out of the 73 lakh rupees, Rs 36.50 lakh had gone to Mahroof Inamdar and Sahdev Karmakar’s accounts while Ragvendra Pujari and Piyush Shah received Rs 25 lakh each.
Jyotsna Otkar stated to the police that Tejas spoke about mortgaging his house in order to get a loan but in actual fact, the men took advantage of Tejas’ ignorance and sold his house as well as taking the loan.
After obtaining a loan from a bank but failed to repay installments on time, employees of these banks started calling at one person’s place; they went there to withdraw money.The following day, Tejashimselfcommitted suicide.In order to establish that the deceased committed suicide after being deceived, the police recorded the testimonies of multiple witnesses including Tushar (Teja’s younger brother) and Jyotsna (his sister), detailed mobile phone reports of both the accused and deceased persons, bank statements, educational documents related to loans issued by them together with interrogation reports.
Duringtheinvestigation, an officer said that same group of culprits were arrested by MHBColonyPoliceandVileParlePolice for carrying out similar frauds.
