MUMBAI: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai Police on Sunday arrested a middle-aged woman for cheating a diamond firm of Rs 4.70 crore. The general cheating branch of the EOW arrested Sunita Sharma (48) for allegedly cheating diamond firm SK Ornaments. Interestingly, this is the second offense registered against Sharma. In May this year, she was arrested for cheating a businessman of Rs 7.5 lakh by promising high returns on his investment.In the latest case, RamswaroopJetmalji, proprietor of SK Ornaments, in his complaint stated a trader, Gangaram, introduced Sharma to him saying she was his relative and her husband was an official in Thane regional passport office. Between 2011-12, Sharma, claiming to be an exporter bought diamonds from Jetmalji on several occasions, paying for it only once.
“Towards the end of 2012, she bought diamond-studded gold jewelry and started defaulting on payments. Within three months Jetmalji bills rose to crores. In September 2012 she made the last payment of Rs 10 lakh and started giving some or the other excuse saying her money from sales was likely to come and she would pay soon.On one occasion she even threatened Jetmalji that if he harassed her for payment, she will commit suicide,” said an officer.
Jetmalji and Gangaram visited Sharma’s flat and she gave him two post-dated cheques of Rs 2.5 crore and Rs 1.8 crore respectively. She also sent an email to Gangaram stating she had returned most of the jewelry to the firm. When he told Jetmalji, he dismissed the claim and visited Sharma with his staff in January 2013. But she refused to pay any money and said her lawyer will respond to him. Jetmalji waited two years and finally lodged a complaint in 2015.
“Sunita was already in Thane jail in a cheating case. So we sought the court’s permission and arrested her. She was remanded to police custody, in this case, up to August 9,”.
