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Ahmedabad News: A complaint has been filed in the Economic Offences Prevention Branch that an Ahmedabad-based labour contract company has committed fraud by promising to get contracts in infrastructure projects going on in various states of the country. Various processing fees and names of performance. The accused also sent fake documents and notes of the government as well as various infrastructure companies to gain the confidence of the complainant.
The details of the complaint filed by Pankajbhai Patil, a resident of Vihal Park Society in Odhav Arbudanagar, are that his father had set up a labour contract company. This company provides labour in various projects. In August 2022, he was introduced to Shivamurthy Rajappa and his brother Srinivas Rajappa (resident of G Devangere, Lakshmisagar, Karnataka) working as labour contract workers in Karnataka. They told Pankajbhai that RIB company has labour work in a road project in Solapur. For which they assured that we will work for you in this project.
Apart from this, Larsen & Turbo of Vijayawada offered this project. Rs 1.16 crore was taken from Pankajbhai for both these projects. After this, a total of Rs 1.84 crore was taken in several phases. Meanwhile, when Pankajbhai did not get compensation, he gave assurances and sent fake documents in email. Not only this, an email was also sent for the license to operate from the National Highway Authority.
However, when Pankajbhai got suspicious and investigated the Mumbai office of IRB company, he found out that Shivmurthy and his brother had committed fraud by preparing fake contracts. On the other hand, when he went to their house, both the brothers were not found there. Finally Pankajbhai filed a complaint in the Economic Offences Prevention Branch of the Crime Branch and the police started an investigation. It was revealed that both the gangs have cheated other labour contractors of the country in the same way.