Pune: The Samarth Police have arrested two, including the main accused, in the Rs 2.40-crore cheating by using witchcraft case. The accused have been identified as Nadir Abdul Hussain Naeemabadi and Roya alias Seema Naeemabadi (35), a resident of Camp.
Following the rejection of Seema Naeemabadi’s interim bail application, they could not be traced. The accused were produced before the Special court of Justice SG Vedpathak on December 31, 2023. Complainant’s lawyer Amey Sirsikar brought to the court’s notice that the arrested accused and the absconding accused cheated the complainant and other investor promising good returns on their investments.
However, they did not get the promised returns and thus, they were cheated of Rs 2.40 crore. It was to be investigated how the accused used the money and where and how they spent it. It was to be found out where and how the money chain took place. The money needed to be traced. Hence, the police custody of the accused was needed.
Granting a five-day police custody, the court said that the crime was serious and the arrested accused and the absconding accused joined hands to commit it. The money needed to be recovered. The other accused’s role and relation was to be established. A five-day police custody was needed, said the remand order.
Nadir Abdul Hussain Naeemabadi, a resident of Synagogue Street, Camp, and Roya alias Seema Nadir Naeemabadi (35), a resident of Camp, Maulana Shoab Mainuddin Attar, a resident of Bopodi, Majid Usman Attar, a resident of Bopodi, Khalid Mainuddin Attar, a resident of Bopodi, and Iram Shoab Attar, a resident of Bopodi, have been booked under the Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act, 2013. Section 3 of the Protection of Interest of Depositors (in Financial Establishments) (MPID) Act, 1999, has been added in the case. The incident took place between August 2020 and August 2022 in Rasta Peth. Shaikh Abdul Basit Abdul Latif (45), a resident of Kondhwa Khurd, lodged a complaint at the Samarth Police Station.
Accused Maulana Shoab and Nadir are developers. The accused joined hands and promised to give good returns to investors on their investments, though they did not have any import-export business. Trusting them, Shaikh invested Rs 2.40 crore from time to time. However, the accused cheated him without giving any returns on his investment.
Moreover, three more people lodged complaints in the past four months at three different police stations. Cheating of over Rs 6.23 crore took place in the four cases.
CP Retesh Kumaarr had directed various investigation agencies to arrest the accused immediately. Police Sub-Inspector Saurabh Thorve and policeman Hemant Perne attached to the Samarth Police Station traced the accused in Camp using technical analysis and arrested them. They were remanded to five-day police custody after they were produced in the court.
The action was taken under the guidance of CP Retesh Kumaarr, Joint CP (Additional Charge) and Addl CP Ramnath Pokale, Addl CP Pravinkumar Patil, DCP Sandeep Singh Gill, ACP Ashok Dhumal, Sr PI Suresh Bandgar and PI Pramod Waghmare.
PSIs Saurabh Thorve and Jyoti Kute, policeman Hemant Perne, API Dattatraya Bhosale, police peraonnel Santosh Damale, Neelam Karpe, Ganesh Waikar, Pramod Jagtap, Sharad Ghorpade, Prafull Sable, Seema Gaikwad and Swati Bhalerao took part in the action.
