Pramesh S Jain
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he Chandra Layout police have booked a cheating case against a woman and two others who claimed to be the sister of Former Congress MP DK Suresh and cheated a city-based jeweller of Rs.8.41 crore.
Based on the complaint by Vanitha S Aithal,owner of the jewellery shop,the Chandra layout police registered an FIR on Monday charged the accused Aishwarya Gouda, who claimed to be Suresh’s sibling,her husband Harish KN and kannada film actor Dharmendra B.
According to the FIR,Vanitha,who ran Vaarahi World of Gold in Chandra Layout,knew Aishwarya and Harish, who resided in RR Nagar.
Aishwarya allegedly told Vanitha that she was Suresh’s younger sister and knew many politicians.
Claiming to be a businesswoman and having high links she offered Vanitha with a lot of business,Aithal claimed as per the FIR.
After gaining her confidence she borrowed some jewellery from my shop and returned the cash in a few days to gain her trust and borrow more jewels on credit basis .
Between October 12,2023 and January 1,2024,the accused borrowed 14.660 kg of gold from her and alleged that neither the borrowed gold nor its equivalent of Rs. 8.41 Crore was returned.
According to the FIR,Harish once called former MP Suresh on the phone to made him talk with Vanitha to seek more time to return the gold Vanitha agreed.
The FIR noted that Vanitha later found it was Dharmendra who claimed to be DK Suresh spoke to Vanitha.
Vanitha further stated that whenever she sought the gold,the accused threatened her with dire consequences .
The case was registered under Sections 406 (criminal breach of trust),419 (cheating by personation),420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 120B (criminal conspiracy), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for further investigation.
