AHMEDABAD: A man from the Naranpura area of the city on Sunday filed a complaint with the Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) alleging that a postal agent, his two family members and an aide cheated him and 13 others of Rs 4 crore by withdrawing their saved incomes from the postal department’s various schemes.
Hemant Hukmani, a resident of Maitrinagar society in Naranpura, said in his FIR that he along with his sister Jyoti Hukmani and mother Pushpa Hukmani had a joint savings account in the postal department in Shastrinagar post office since 2010. His father Jethalal Hukmani and uncle Kana Hukmani had another joint account in the same post office.
Hemant said that a postal agent Tejas Shah used to take care of accounts of his family. Tejas’ wife Gira Shah and their friend Darshana Bhatt, all residents of Naranpura, were also working with Tejas as postal agents.
After Hemant and his family members’ policy matured, Tejas, Gira and Bhatt used to invest that amount in different schemes.
Hemant said that he came to know from the post office in Oct 2023 that Tejas, Gira, Darshana and Tejas’ son Malav Shah had forged his and his family members’ signatures, opened different bank accounts and withdrew Rs 27.75 lakh which belonged to Hemant and his family members.
Like Hamant, other 13 investors in the postal schemes were cheated of money ranging from Rs 4 lakh to Rs 48 lakh by Tejas and other accused with the same modus operandi.
The DCB registered a complaint of breach of trust, cheating, forgery, producing forged documents as genuine, forgery of valuable security, forgery for the purpose of cheating and criminal conspiracy under the IPC against Tejas, Gira, Malav and Bhatt.
