**Inter-state Gang Busted for Duping People Through Fake Luxury Villa Scam in Jaipur**

*Indore (Madhya Pradesh):* The crime branch has arrested two individuals and busted an inter-state gang involved in duping people of huge sums of money through social media by falsely promising luxury “five-star villas” in Jaipur.

According to officials, the accused had established a fake company named *Di Dau O Muntajae* and lured victims by assuring them of owning villas in Jaipur. They collected advance payments from multiple people, issued fake allotment letters, and then vanished without delivering the properties or refunding the money.

One of the victims, Akanksha Vajpayee, a resident of Padmavati Colony, along with her husband Vivek Vajpayee, was cheated of Rs 22.17 lakh. The accused contacted the couple through different mobile numbers on social media and convinced them to transfer the amount in advance.

Following their complaint, a case was registered under sections 420, 409, 120B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and section 66D of the Information Technology (IT) Act.

During the investigation, the crime branch team conducted technical analysis and traced the accused to Mumbai. A team was dispatched to Mumbai and arrested two accused from Versova.

The arrested individuals were identified as Dharmendra alias Dheeraj Wadhwani of Patrakar Colony, Jaipur, the main owner of the fake project, whose account received most of the scammed money; and Preeti Rao alias Preeti Yadav of Delhi, who acted as a company representative and directly contacted victims during the fraud.

The police seized several items including six keypad mobile phones, five smartphones, four laptops, two cheque books, three company seals, and visiting cards as evidence.

Both accused have been taken into police remand for further interrogation to uncover their network and identify other victims of the scam.
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