Man posing as kin from Canada dupes resident of Rs 1.5 lakh

A conman from Canada deceived Malkit Singh, a resident of Dhandari Kalan, here, by claiming to be a relative from Canada. He duped him of Rs 1.5 lakh. After investigation, the Ludhiana police yesterday registered a case against the suspect, identified as Arvind Gajanand Pudkar, a resident of Govindpura, Bhopal, under the IT Act and under the relevant sections of the IPC.

The complainant, Malkit Singh, said last year, he had received an international call on WhatsApp from a man who identified himself as Parvinder Singh, his relative from Canada. During the conversation, the fraudster informed him that his close friend was admitted to a hospital in Ludhiana.