Pune: Seven Individuals, Including Legal Professionals, Implicated in Shivajinagar Financial Scam

Pune: In the financial swindling of a 40-year-old woman, Shivajinagar police lodged a complaint against seven people, including three lawyers and a policeman. The accused defrauded a young woman by cajoling her to make a gift deed for her. This incident has been going on from July 2026 to April 2024 in the Shivajinagar court area and other places.

The plaintiff was duped of Rs 20 lakh by fraudsters in this case. As per Police Sub-Inspector Ajit Bade, the plaintiff, Monika Mandar Khaladkar, a resident of Dangat Patilnagar, Shivne, Pune, runs a small beauty parlour business in the Shivajinagar area. A few of the accused met the plaintiff in 2016 and told her that in the coming few days, they were going to receive crores of rupees, and hence they wanted to make a gift deed in the plaintiff’s name to save tax.

Believing them, the plaintiff deposited an initial sum of Rs 20 lakh into the accused’s given bank account for proceeding. After that, the accused made forged documents by imprinting a fake RBI stamp on them. The accused gave those certificates to the plaintiff by pretending they were genuine.

However, after realising about the accused’s conspiracy, the plaintiff immediately rushed to Shivajinagar Police Station and filed a police complaint against seven accused, including three advocates and one policeman.

Accordingly, Shivajinagar police booked Manisha Karde, Mangala Rathod, Subhash Utteswar Avghade, Advocate Tukaram Katule, Advocate Anil Misal, Advocate Anant Sankude, and an unknown policeman under IPC 420, 406, 467, 468, and 34 and initiated an investigation regarding their whereabouts. Investigating officer PSI Bade said that the identity of the involved police officer in this case has not been confirmed yet, and efforts are underway to detain the accused policeman.