Airline engineer dupes co-workers, goes absconding

A staff of a reputed Indian airline service reportedly has been absconding after borrowing a sum of about '55 lakh from his colleagues, in the pretext of providing them houses in a Mhada housing scheme. According to the Mumbai airport sources, Sudeep Subrata Ghosh (33), coaxed his colleagues and borrowed almost '55 lakh from them. In the connection an FIR was lodged at the domestic airport police station and now police is in search for the accused.

According to the police officials of domestic airport police station, they have put Ghosh’s number on surveillance to nab him, and issued a notice to agencies to prevent his escape abroad. Officials are also keeping an eye on his social networking activities.

According to the police sources, officials have got inputs that Ghosh cheated almost eight people. Police has registered a case against him under sections 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 420 (cheating) of IPC.

According to the sources from Mumbai airport, Ghosh at first lured one of his colleagues, Deepan Shankar, who also works as an engineer in Jet airways hanger, promising a flat in Mhada. He also showed him an under construction building of Mhada to him. Similarly in January 2015, he approached another colleague Venkatpati Meenu Chitra, and told her that his uncle is the director of Mhada so he can provide a flat to her. Meenu agreed to pay the money in instalments to Ghosh. Subsequently, over several online transactions, Meenu paid him '29.39 lakh in 2015. Later by November from 13 online transactions she paid total 29.50 lakh to Ghosh. Shankar paid a sum '24.30 lakh, while another colleague paid '1.46 lakh to Ghosh.

In November when these three inquired from Ghosh about the flat he took them to Kurla again and showed the building, which was now already built and occupied with the resident. So, the complainant again approached Ghosh who, this time promised to provide flat in another building and later started avoiding the colleagues. An inside from the hanger area informed The Asian Age that when complainant kept on asking about the flat almost two months ago Ghosh escaped from office and is still missing.