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Man misusing Union govt website held Monday, October 1, 2001

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AHMEDABAD: The Economic Offences Cell of the Criminal Investigation Department (crime) arrested a mechanical engineer who had defrauded three persons to the tune of Rs 5 crore by misusing a Government of India site.

The EOC acted on a complaint from a Naroda-based industrialist Chandubhai Panchal and arrested Amit Doshi who belongs to Ahmedabad but had settled in Surat since 1999, superintendent of police S G Bhati told TNN.

Doshi launched a bogus outfit called Central Projects and Development Organisation (CPDO) and register it as a trust and a co-operative society. "He then maintained his website address as 'www.cpdo.org', which was exactly like the website address of the Government of India's 'Central Projects and Development Orientation' (CPDO)," Bhati said.

Posing as a superintending engineer of the GOI firm, he would approach business parties and offer services for roads and building projects. Panchal, who manufactures air compressors, met Doshi and was promised business in African countries. Doshi placed an order for Rs 6 crore worth of material and took Rs 3 crore as security and miscellaneous charges.

Similarly, he took Rs 1.20 crore from 'Fine Builders' for a housing society contract, and also approached Bharuch-based Oriental Developmental Corporation whose proprietor mortgaged his bungalow for Rs 34 lakh with him as security, Bhati added.

After receiving complaints from Panchal and the rest, Doshi was picked up from Surat on Saturday and booked for cheating. He is on a 15-day remand.

News Source : The Times of India [India's best Newspaper]

 

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