Doctor pays Rs 26,500 online for rooms near Nainital, finds hotel doesn’t exist

When searching for hotels online, helium recovered a moderately priced edifice named Kainchi Dham Ashram.

Gupta said a edifice worker informed him that the edifice was located wrong the Neem Karoli temple compound.

“The rooms looked elemental and the terms was nominal… I wanted to publication 2 rooms,” said Gupta, adding that helium was provided with the hotel’s slope details for the same.

“I was a small suspicious due to the fact that the slope details the worker provided were not nether the hotel’s name. When I asked him, helium reassured maine saying it was the hotel’s slope account,” said Gupta.

However, erstwhile the outgo – Rs 13,050 – went through, the worker insisted that helium had not received the money. Gupta recalled going backmost and distant with the employee, sharing his NEFT transaction details and a screenshot of the payment.

“The edifice worker past sought that the wealth beryllium paid done UPI and said that helium would refund the wealth paid done NEFT,” said Gupta.

Gupta went connected to wage Rs 13,450 a 2nd clip via UPI earlier the worker seemingly disappeared. “He stopped taking my calls, adjacent my accountant’s calls… aft calling him persistently for a time I realised it was a scam. Then I recovered that nary specified edifice existed.”

Gupta registered a ailment connected the cyber portal and was informed by the constabulary that the cognition was tally from

Meerut. “We are looking into the substance and pursuing each leads,” said DCP (South East) Ravi Kumar Singh.