Punjab News Line, Chandigarh:
Chandigarh Police has arrested Arpana Sagotra, who won the title of Mrs. Chandigarh, in several cases of fraud. 500 grams of gold biscuits, 7 lakh cash and a car have been recovered from the accused woman. Along with this, the woman's son Kunal has been arrested while the husband is already in jail. According to the police, 25 cases are registered against the accused Arpana.
According to the Mohali Phase-11 police, her husband Sanjay has been arrested by the police. It is alleged that the woman has cheated people of Rs 2.5 to 3 crore. The cases may increase further and the police investigation is currently on. According to the police, this woman, who was Miss Chandigarh, is a lawyer by profession and she won the Mrs. Chandigarh award in the age group above 40 years in 2019.
This is how the cheating game started
Police investigation so far has revealed that the accused woman along with her husband started the immigration business. They opened their office in Sector 105 Mohali and from there they used to talk to people about sending them abroad. After cheating people of lakhs of rupees, they did not send them abroad and neither did they talk to people after taking money. Police revealed that this entire trap was laid through social media. From here, both husband and wife used to contact people. They used to cheat people by luring them to send them to Canada.
Apart from immigration, it has also come to light that this woman used to cheat in another way. Accused Arpana has cheated a woman from Derabassi of five lakh rupees by luring her to get her child admitted in a private school in Sector 26, Chandigarh. This woman, a lawyer by profession, used to threaten to implicate them in a case when someone asked for the money back from her.
This was recovered from the woman
During the police investigation, gold biscuits of 100 grams each were recovered from the accused woman. This is the same money that this woman had used to buy gold biscuits. Apart from this, Rs 7 lakh cash and a car were also recovered from the fraud woman. On the other hand,
Mohali SHO Gagandeep Singh has said that the amount of fraud may increase. For this, the bank accounts of the accused woman are also being checked. Most of the cases against the accused woman are registered in Sohana police station of Mohali. Neighboring states including Punjab have also been alerted about this.