Three booked for duping Thane woman of Rs 16.35 lakh on pretext of college admission

THANE: (Apr 6) A case has been registered against three persons for allegedly duping a woman from Maharashtra's Thane city of Rs 16.35 lakh by promising to get her daughter admitted to a prestigious engineering college, police said on Monday.

Based on a complaint, the Kapurbawdi police on April 2 registered a first information report (FIR) against the accused, Tashin Khan (40), Saif Khan (42), and a woman identified as Shruti, an official said.

The official stated that the victim had approached the accused at their office in Kapurbawdi after coming across a newspaper advertisement in June last year regarding admissions to an engineering college in Mumbai.