Man booked for duping seven army aspirants of Rs 35 lakh

A case has been registered against a man who allegedly duped seven persons, including one from Mumbai, of Rs 35 lakh, by promising recruitment in the Army in Nashik. The police said cases have been registered against Prakash Vikram Chavan of Baglan tehsil of Nashik district.

The police said Chavan had been taking money from candidates for the past 2.5 years. Though a resident of Baglan, he used to show up in Deolali Camp cantonment area and dupe the victims. Between November 23, 2013 to January 27, 2015, he met the candidates in various parts of the tiny township and extracted money.

To show some legality, he made the candidates deposit money in his State Bank account. The candidates collectively paid him Rs 34,84,000. The father of the victims,

Yeshwant Maruti Patil of Kandivali East, paid him Rs 80,000 and demanded that he get his son recruited.

Finally Mr Patil filed a case in Deolali Camp police station on Friday evening.

A bogus army recruitment racket with links to Delhi had been unearthed in Nashik this August with 50 candidates allegedly being selected from throughout the country.