CHENNAI: Metropolis police on Saturday arrested a 27-year-old man, who cheated a technical companies firm by renting near 500 laptops within the pretext of working an organization and defrauded them by promoting the laptops.
The complainant, J Premalatha (43) of Virugambakkam, runs an organization, ‘Technical techniques non-public restricted,’ which rents out laptops. Few months in the past, the accused, Dinesh Lingam had approached Premalatha, claiming to run an organization within the identify of ‘Dinesh Communications’ and took 496 laptops on hire.
When the lady approached Dinesh for the pending rental quantity of Rs 21 lakh, Dinesh stored on dodging her. He additionally did not return the laptops in time.
Investigations revealed that Dinesh bought among the laptops He had returned solely 57 laptops to Premalatha and stored the remaining.
The police secured 312 laptops from him. Police additionally seized his two-wheeler and automotive.
