Sharjah businessman arrested for cheating Sumitra Mahajan's son

Mandar Mahajan complained that the owner of an aviation company cheated him

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The owner of a Sharjah-based private aviation company, Anand Subramaniam, has been arrested after Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan's son lodged a complaint against him.

Mandar Mahajan, secretary of the Madhya Pradesh Flying Club, had filed a complaint before police that Subramaniam had cheated him out of Rs 21.87 lakh.

According to police, in May 2016, MP Flying Club filed a complaint against Sharjah resident Subramaniam for not delivering the engine for a Cessna aircraft despite taking a payment of Rs 21.87 lakh through Central Bank, Indore via account transfer in 2013. The Aerodrome Police Station had registered a case under section 420 (cheating) and 467 (forgery) of the IPC.

MP Flying Club had ordered for an engine with Subramaniam's aviation company through due procedure and advance payment. However, the company did not deliver the engine and instead, kept on making false promises of the delivery. Later, it was learnt that Subramaniam had shut his company and entered a new business.

Since then Subramaniam has been absconding prompting the police to issue an Interpol notice against him. He was arrested from Mumbai airport on Tuesday evening after arriving from Sharjah.

Police said that after his arrest, Subramaniam was taken by the Crime Branch of Indore, and he will be produced before a local court.