Tuesday, 13 February 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The Pune police arrested Mushroom girl Divya Rawat and her brother Rajpal Rawat in a fraud case filed against them by a local businessman in Pune. They both were reportedly arrested on February 9. The court in Pune granted two-day custody of both to the police and both can be brought to Dehradun soon, as per the officials. They informed that the complainant Jitendra Nandkishore Bhakra, an owner of a Pune-based consulting firm, had filed a case against Rawat and her brother in Pune on December 27, 2022.
Bhakra has reportedly claimed that he was looking for some work for his firm in 2019 when he came in contact with Rawat. According to his claims, Rawat had proposed to him partnership in mushroom production under the reverse migration project of her company, as per the officials. Bhakra claimed that he went to Gujarat with the team for training before starting the project. He claimed to have bought some machines there. During this period, it was he who bore the expenses of salary, accommodation and purchase of machines for the team members. The entire project cost about Rs 1.20 crore. Rawat gave him some of this money, which she later took back on some pretext, as per Bhakra’s claims, the officials said. They further informed that the victim has claimed that when he asked Rawat for the money in 2022, she registered a case of fraud of Rs 77 lakh against him in Dehradun’s Nehru Colony police station. After this, the police called him to Dehradun and arrested him. He got bail after being in jail for three months. He later got to know via the Right to Information Act that Rawat had filed a case against him on the basis of an affidavit made in Meerut.
This affidavit later turned out to be counterfeit. He filed a police complaint against Rawat and her brother in Pune. Rawat was also allegedly demanding Rs 32.5 lakh from him for the settlement of the case registered against him. He reportedly called Rawat to Pune to collect a check of Rs 10 lakh when she and her brother were arrested by the police. The police are investigating the matter, the officials added.
