MUMBAI: A Mira Road-based actual property agent has disappeared together with his circle of relatives after allegedly duping potential tenants of “heavy deposit” totalling more than Rs 1.eight crore. Hardik Shet, the agent, is alleged to have left in the back of a “suicide be aware” in Gujarati, alleging that he was being pressured via a couple of other people and that he feared for his life.
Under heavy deposit, which is not unusual apply in Mira Road and Bhayander, tenants pay a lumpsum amount of Rs 2 lakh to 4 lakh to flat owners. Thereafter, they don't want to pay a per thirty days rent. The depart and licence settlement is for 22 to 33 months. When the tenant vacates the flat, the landlord returns all the deposit amount.
Last month, 38 tenants who had paid the sum in cheques filed a criticism with Kashimira police. Several victims who had paid in money, even though, wouldn't have any evidence of the money exchange. Police resources said the quantity actual property agent swindled may smartly run into Rs 5 crore.
According to the criticism, Shet, who ran a real property company at Mira Road’s Vinay Nagar in Sheetal Complex, used to provide apartments on rent on heavy deposit.
Shet had moved to Mira Road together with his wife and youngsters a couple of years ago. Initially, he would honour the heavy deposit settlement. Since early remaining yr, even though, he began to collect cheques in his identify, encash those and then tell the potential tenant that the flat proprietor had backed out of the deal. When the tenant would ask for money, he would say he was looking for some other flat and would modify the quantity against it.
By November-end, the victims discovered he had shut shop. His two automobiles had been found deserted in different places at Mira Road. On December 12, police filed a dishonest case.
Under heavy deposit, which is not unusual apply in Mira Road and Bhayander, tenants pay a lumpsum amount of Rs 2 lakh to 4 lakh to flat owners. Thereafter, they don't want to pay a per thirty days rent. The depart and licence settlement is for 22 to 33 months. When the tenant vacates the flat, the landlord returns all the deposit amount.
Last month, 38 tenants who had paid the sum in cheques filed a criticism with Kashimira police. Several victims who had paid in money, even though, wouldn't have any evidence of the money exchange. Police resources said the quantity actual property agent swindled may smartly run into Rs 5 crore.
According to the criticism, Shet, who ran a real property company at Mira Road’s Vinay Nagar in Sheetal Complex, used to provide apartments on rent on heavy deposit.
Shet had moved to Mira Road together with his wife and youngsters a couple of years ago. Initially, he would honour the heavy deposit settlement. Since early remaining yr, even though, he began to collect cheques in his identify, encash those and then tell the potential tenant that the flat proprietor had backed out of the deal. When the tenant would ask for money, he would say he was looking for some other flat and would modify the quantity against it.
By November-end, the victims discovered he had shut shop. His two automobiles had been found deserted in different places at Mira Road. On December 12, police filed a dishonest case.
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