‘Jamtara’ producer booked for duping Khar businessman of Rs 2.5 crore

According to the ailment filed, Trehan promised  Nihar that helium would instrumentality the wealth wrong a twelvemonth with interest.

However, helium did not wage backmost and defrauded the financer, the constabulary said.

Nihar, who has a concern work firm, met Trehan successful October 2022, done a communal contact.

Trehan had past introduced himself arsenic manager of an advertisement editing institution ‘Click On RM Pvt Ltd.’ with his woman besides arsenic the manager successful the company.

According to the FIR, Trehan requested  Nihar to supply him Rs 2 crore for the concern expansion. He promised to instrumentality the wealth wrong a twelvemonth (by October 2023) on with the interest. Trusting Trehan, Nihar transferred Rs 2 crore to him via online.

After a year, Trehan visited Nihar’s bureau on with a idiosyncratic named Satvant Singh. Trehan introduced Singh arsenic a elder functionary from a fashionable OTT platform.

When Nihar asked Trehan astir the money, the second told him that helium had invested his wealth successful a film. He claimed that film’s shooting is done and lone the editing enactment is near for which helium needed Rs 50 lakh much from Nihar, the FIR said.

According to the complainant, Trehan told him that if helium helps him with the wealth past the movie volition beryllium sold to the OTT level and successful the adjacent six months helium would get the money, from which helium volition replay Nihar.

Nihar past transferred Rs 50 lakh to Trehan’s slope relationship connected October 5, 2023. This clip connected the instructions of Nihar, Trehan gave a written assurance successful the signifier of a indebtedness statement stating that helium had taken Rs 1.25 crore from Nihar arsenic loan.

Trehan besides gave 4 station dated cheques to Nihar totalling Rs 2.50 crore with a committedness that helium would instrumentality each the wealth with involvement by March 31, 2024, the constabulary ailment said.

However, Trehan again failed to repay and erstwhile Nihar deposited the cheques successful the bank, the aforesaid were not processed by the slope arsenic Trehan had “stopped payment” connected the said cheques.

When Nihar contacted Trehan, helium did not instrumentality the calls and aboriginal blocked him.

After his ailment was not being registered, Nihar approached past DCP Raj Tilak Roushan and aboriginal DCP Dixit Gedam. On the DCP Gedam’s directive, the Santacruz constabulary Thursday booked Trehan on with Singh nether sections 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 34 (Common intention) of the Indian Penal Code.

Nihar has besides alleged that his ailment besides names Trehan’s woman arsenic a co-accused but the constabulary has skipped her sanction from the FIR.

Tehran was unavailable for comments.

On Singh’s role, Nihar said that helium aboriginal discovered that helium was successful information Trehan’s antheral and was not associated with immoderate OTT platform. The constabulary are checking the veracity of the allegations made against Trehan.