Pune: Lawyer Cheats Elderly Woman Under Pretext Of Compensation Amount
Pimpri, 30th January 2023: A lawyer has been arrested for defrauding an elderly woman of lakhs of rupees by claiming that he would pay her after selling her shop. A case has been registered against the lawyer’s wife and two others in connection with the incident in Pimpri.
The name of the lawyer arrested in this case is Adv Dinesh Dharmadas Lalwani (50), a resident of Pimpri. A case has been registered against his wife Simran (47), Shankar Hotchand Ahuja (64), a resident of Ulhasnagar, Thane, Vinod Zorilal Kalosia (40), a resident of Bopkhel, and others. The said incident happened over eight years from 2014 to 2022. Rajani Keshav Panjwani (58), a resident of Pimpri has filed a complaint in this matter.
Panjwani’s father owned a shop in Pimpri Market. He had given this shop on rent to Mohandas Chaudhary. But Chaudhary was not increasing the rent, nor was he giving possession of the shop. Meanwhile, Panjwani’s father Sunderdas Gandamal Lohani passed away. After that, the shop was owned in the name of Bhagwati; Lohani’s mother. Panjwani’s mother and other siblings went to lawyer Lalwani for help. Panjwani has alleged that Lalwani has sold the shop to Aman Chaudhary saying that then he will take over the shop and settle the dispute. However, the signatures on this purchase order belong to Panjwani’s mother and other siblings. Panjwani also says that it was taken unknowingly.
It was shown that the shop was transacted in the name of Ahuja, a relative of lawyer Lalwani. Meanwhile, it was said that after the transaction of this shop, the lawyer gives the flat in Kalewadi to Panjwani’s mother in the name of the wife of Lalwani. For this, Rs 11 lakh from Panjwani’s mother’s bank account was transferred to Lalwani’s wife’s bank account.
The flat in the name of Simran Lalwani was not given to Panjwani’s mother Lohani. Meanwhile, the money in his bank account also went to Simran and as the flat was not given, Lohani and her family complained to the then Deputy Commissioner of Police in 2018. Fearing action, Lalwani deposited Rs 16 lakh in Lohani’s bank account showing that the transaction of the flat in Simran’s name with Lohani was canceled.
However, within a few days, showing that Lohani had bought Kalosia’s shop in Bopkhel, Rs p16 lakh from Lohani’s bank account was transferred to Kalosia’s bank account. But the investigation has now revealed that no such transaction took place.
Rs 16 lakh was deposited in Kalosia’s bank account from Lohani’s account on the same day it was withdrawn from the account. Subsequently, it has been revealed that Rs 14 lakh was paid to Lalwani while Kalosia took Rs two lakh as commission. After several days of investigating the matter, the Pimpri police finally registered a case and arrested Lalwani. The court ordered him to be remanded in police custody till January 30. Assistant Police Inspector Dr Ashok Dongre is investigating the case.
