Loan app fraud: 2 held from Karnataka for ‘duping, defaming’ man

Two men were arrested from Karnataka on Sunday in a loan app fraud case. A south-Mumbai-based complainant alleged he was duped of over Rs 2 lakh, and defamed by the accused.

The two accused have been identified as Salman Riaz Hadanur and Mohammad Ali alias Shoaib Hidayat Ali Sheikh. They were produced in a court and remanded in police custody, said officials from LT Marg Police Station.

The complainant, police said, took a loan of Rs 2.93 lakh last year from an online portal. He was then allegedly contacted by the accused who forced him to pay an additional amount of Rs 2.10 lakh. They pressured him by morphing his pictures.